HISTORY OF CROYDON 



G. STEINMAN STEINMAN, ESQ., F.S. A., F.L. S. 




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THE MOST REVEREND 

WILLIAM 

LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, 

PRIMATE AND METROPOLITAN, 

&c. &c. &c. 

THIS VOLUME 

IS, WITH PERMISSION, MOST HUMBLY INSCRIBED 

BY HIS GRACE'S OBLIGED 

AND VERY OBEDIENT SERVANT, 

THE AUTHOB. 



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PREFACE, 



It is now many years since a History of Croy- 
don has been given to the public — for I pass 
over, as unworthy of notice, a modern publica- 
tion, very inaccurately compiled from the works 
of Ducarel, and Manning and Bray. In 1783, 
a thin quarto appeared, from the pen of the cele- 
brated antiquary, Andrew Coltie Ducarel, LL.D. 
F.R.S. and F.S.A., intitled " An Account of the 
Town, Church, and Archiepiscopal Palace of 
Croydon," forming the twelfth Number of the 
" Bibliotheca TopographicaBritannica;" on which 
foundation — the earliest — every succeeding His^- 
tory will be raised. 



VI PREFACE. 

Great as is the merit due to this indefatigable 
Antiquary, for the deep research he has display- 
ed; still he has left much untold, his work pre- 
senting little more than the materials for a His- 
tory of Croydon. 

The next account of this parish will be found 
jn Lyson's " Environs of London/' (5 vols. 4to, 
1792 — 1811); which, with that in Manning and 
Bray's " History and Antiquities of Surrey," (3 
vols, folio, 1804 — 1814), comprises all that has yet 
been written concerning it. 

The two last-mentioned Histories — if so they 
may be termed — are necessarily brief; they con- 
tain, however, information not to be found in 
Ducarel. 

Of the merits, if any, of the present volume, it 
would ill become the Author to speak. He con- 
tents himself with stating, that he has sought 
diligently among the MSS. in the libraries of the 
British Museum, of Lambeth Palace, and of the 



PREFACE. Vll 

College of Arms; with what success he leaves the 
reader to determine. 

The kind assistance of his friend, Sir William 
Woods, Clarenceux, F.S.A., &c, the Author ac- 
knowledges with thanks. 

G. S. S. 

Camberwell, July 18, 1833. 



INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Page 
St. James' Chapel ....... 1 

White-horse ....... 32 

Whitgift's College 56 

North View of Palace 98 

Plan of the Palace and Grounds ... to face 99 

Porter's Lodge to Palace 100 

Interior of Great Hall in ditto « . . . .104 

South View of Palace 119 

The Church . .... 120 
Font in ditto Vignette 



The Illustrations are engraved by Messrs. Branston & Wright, 
from Sketches chiefly made by W. Sims and the Author. 



CONTENTS. 



Chapter I. — Early History and Present State 



Page 
1 



Chapter II. — Chronology . 



16 



Chapter III.- 


— Manors and Park 


. 30 




Woddon . 


ib. 




White-horse . 


. 32 




Croham 


35 




Norbury 


. 36 




Haling 


38 




Palmers 


. 46 




Ham 


ib. 




Selhurst 


. 47 




Croydon Park . 


ib. 



Chapter IV. — Addiscombe 



49 



Chapter V. — Charitable Institutions 
Ellis Davy's Alms-house 
Whitgift's Hospital . 
Chaplains to ditto 
Tenison's School 



54 

ib. 
56 
70 
72 



CONTENTS. 



Chapter VI. 











Page 


-The Palace 


. 


. 


. 


74 


Archbishops 


resident at Croydon 


. 


75 


Account of 


the Palace 


by E, 


R. 




Mores 


. 


. 


. 


80 


Description of the Palace 


. 


. 


98 



Chapter VII. — The Church .... 120 

Rectors . . . . . 133 

Vicars ..... 136 

Incumbents of St. Mary's Chauntry 148 

Incumbents of St. Nicholas' Chauntry 149 
Register . . . . .151 

Epitaphs 156 

Chapter VIII. — Benefactions to Croydon . . 212 



APPENDIX. 

No. I. — Instrumentum factum super Appropriatione Ecclie 
de Croydon et Assignatione Manerii de Woddon . 217 

No. II. — Excerpta ex Computis Ministrorum . . 234 

No. III. — Extract from the Minister's or Bailiff's Ac- 
counts of the Colleges, Chauntries, Free Chapels, &c, 
in the County of Surrey, 3 Edw. VI. . . . 247 

No. IV. — Parcell of the Possessions of the late dissolved 
Archbishopricke of Canterbury . . . . 25 1 

No. V. — Extracts from Books deposited in the Lambeth 
Library 262 

No. VI. — Commissio ad Vendicand' Clericos Convictos in 
Villa de Croydon 266 

No. VII. — Statutes of Ellis Davy's Alms-house . 267 



CONTENTS. XI 

Page 
No. VIII. — Letters Patent for building the Hospital of 
the Holy Trinity, at Croydon, with Licence of Mort- 
main, and incorporating the same .... 288 
No. IX. — Archbishop Whitgift's Deed of Foundation . 298 
No. X. — Statutes, Constitutions, and Ordinaunces of the 

Hospital of the Holy Trinity 307 

No. XI. — -A Case resolved touching the Hospital of the 

Holy Trinity 333 

No, XII. — Negotium Dedicationis et Assignationis Novae 
Capellae sive Oratorii Hospitalis vocati Hospitale Sanctae 

Trinitatis 335 

No. XIII. — Form of giving the Alms-men their Rooms . 338 
No. XIV. — Eight Letters from the Rev. Samuel Finch, 

Vicar of Croydon, relative to Whitgift's Hospital . 339 

No. XV. — Visitation of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity , 353 
No. XVI. — Heads of Orders for the Charity Schoole for 
ten poor Boys and ten poor Girls, founded by Thomas 
Tenison, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury . . 356 

No. XVII. — Acts of Parliament relating to Croydon . 360 
No. XVIII. — The Case of the Inhabitants of the Town 
and Parish of Croydon, in the County of Surrey, con- 
cerning the great Oppressions they ly under, by reason 
of the unparalleled Extortions, and violent, illegal, and 
unwarrantable Prosecutions of Doctor William Cleiver, 
Vicar of the said Parish . . . . .360 



INDEX TO EPITAPHS. 



Anderson, N. D. 

,A. , 

Andrews 
Apthorp, E. 

, C. B. . 

Arnold 



Bainbridge 
Baynham 
Belgrave . 
Berne, M. A. C. 

, A. M. . 

Boddington, W. 

— , M. 

, W. 

, F. 

Bourdieu, P. 

, J. . 

, A. . 

Bowles 
Bowling . 
Bradbury . 
Brewster . 
Brigstock, R. 

,T. . 

,C. . 

, R. P. 

, A. R. 

,T. . 

, T. . 

,T. . 

Burnett 
Burton 
Burr, C. . 

,P. . . 

, S, A. 

Butler, E. 



Page 

. 160 
. 209 
. 201 
. 171 
. ib. 
. 202 



192 
191 
187 
185 

ib. 
202 

ib. 

ib. 

ib. 
183 

ib. 

ib. 
203 
166 
205 
193 
181 

ib. 

ib. 
182 

ib. 

ib. 

ib. 
191 
211 
185 
191 

ib. 



Butler, F. 
Byrne 



Caldcleugh 
Callant, A. 

■ ,J. 

,M. 

, R. 



Champion, P. 
■, C 



Chapman 
Chatfield, R. 

, A. 

-, M. 

, A. 

,J. 

-,A. 



Clifton 
Cooke, A. 

,M. 

Copley, S. 

j J- 

Crowe 



ib. 
168 



D 

D'Arley . 
Davenant . 
Davis 
Davy 
Delaund, B. 

, M. 

, R. 

Drake, R. 

,R. 

,B. 

Duglass, Maj. Gen. 
Durand 



168 
178 



163 
170 

ib. 

ib. 

ib. 
179 

ib. 
207 
194 

ib. 
195 

ib. 
197 

ib. 
189 
186 

ib. 
188 

ib. 
189 



210 
206 
192 
167 
170 

ib.. 

ib. 
195 

ib. 
193 
196 
181 



INDEX TO EPITAPHS. 



Xlll 



Elcock, E. 
,G. 

Elderton 
Eyres 



F. 



Fenwick . 
Fletcher, F. 

, M. . 

Ffynche . 

G. 

Gabriel 
Galhie 

Gardner, Rev. J. 
Gibson, S. 

,W. 

Godfrey . 
Gresham, Lady 
Grindall, Archbishop 



H. 



Harbin, M. 

,H. 

-,E. 

Harrison 
Hatcher, Capt. 
Heathfield, S. 

, J. 

,E. 

, M. 

, J. 

,W. 

, Rev 

,J. 

, M. 

, E. 



J. 



Heron, Sir N. . 

, T. 

,W. 

Herring, Archbishop 

, W. . 

: , M. D. 

Hetherington 
Hoar, Dr. 
Hutchinson, F. 

, C. . 

, E. 

, W. 



Page 
, 169 
. ib. 
. 191 
, 169 



193 

201 

ib. 

186 



161 
186 
208 
190 
ib. 
195 
206 
156 



172 

ib. 

ib. 
190 
162 
196 

ib. 

ib. 

ib. 

ib. 

ib. 

ib. 
197 

ib. 

ib. 
167 
199 
200 
179 
204 

ib. 
186 
209 
171 

ib. 
172 

ib. 



A. 

;r. 

Johnson, T. 

, J. 

, J. 



Lee, M. 
,M. 

Legatt 
Lodge 



M 



Mackett . 
Marsh, S. 

, Capt. 

Martin 
Mattock, J. 

,R. 

Michell 

Mill 

Mills, Alderman 

, M. 

,' H. F. 

Morton, M. 

, Sir R. 

Moulton, E. 
,J. 

Mulgrave, Lord 

, Lady 

Murgatroid 



Otes, Rev. S. 



Packington 
Parker, M.A. 

, C. 

,H. 

-,J. 

, B. 

.J. 

K 

Parkinson 

Peers, A. S. 
, Alderman 



Page 
203 

ib. 

ib. 
169 

ib. 

ib. 



165 

ib. 

200 

201 



161 
166 

ib. 
182 
181 

ib. 
208 
201 
159 
180 

ib. 

ib. 
199 

ib. 
163 

ib. 
210 

ib. 
173 



. 167 



184 
187 
190 

ib. 

ib. 

ib. 
198 

ib. 
184 
193 

ib. 



XIV 



INDEX TO EPITAPHS. 



Peers, T. . 

Pennyman, Lady 

Pettit 

Plasket 

Poore 

Potter, Archbishop 

Price, E. 

\ S*. '. 

, T. . . 

Protheroe, Captain 
Pynsent 

R. 
Raven 

Reavely 
Redvnge . 
Richard, M. D. 

,D. 

Richards 
Ridley, R. 

S. 
Scaife, Rev. J. 
Scudamore, Lady 
Seymor 
Sheldon, Archbishop 

, Sir J. 

,D. 

, J. 

, R. 



~, Lady C 
-,R. 



Smith, H. 
Smith, P. 

,A. 

-,H. 

_,R. 
— -,M. 
Steinman 
Swinbourn 



178 



Page 

193 

179 

165 

163 

165 

,204 

171 

ib. 

ib. 

ib. 

208 

160 



187 
186 
209 
162 
163 
197 
197 
ib. 

158 
201 
165 
177 
180 

ib. 
181 

ib. 
210 

ib. 

ib. 
162 
162 
185 

ib. 
188 
195 
178 
210 | 



Tirrell, Alderman 

U 

Usborn, J. 

, G. 

Vade, Rev. J. 

,M. 

, E. 



W. 

Wake, Archbishop 

Wallinger 

Walshe . 

Welbank 

Westgarth 

Wharam 

Whitaker, E. 



Whitehill 

Whitgift, Archbishop 

Wilkinson, Capt. 

Wilks 

Williams 

Wilson 

Wood, T. 

, J. 

, A. 

-,T. 

, A. 

,J. 

Woode 
Wright 
Wyvell, M. 
, J. 



Yeoman 
Yeomans 



Page 
192 



206 
ib. 

195 
ib. 
ib. 



204 
179 
205 
193 
170 
202 
191 

ib. 
194 
174 

ib. 

ib. 
162 
194 
164 

ib. 

ib. 

ib. 

ib. 

ib. 
207 
180 
188 
189 



207 
ib.. 



ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. 

Page 
32, add, as a note, — On the south gable of Bencham manor-house 

is the date 1604, formed in the brick work; by which it 
appears that its time of erection was early in the reign 
of James I., and not in that of Henry VIII., as I sup- 
posed, 
49, add, as a note, — Sir John Tunstall must have come to Addis- 
combe after 1619, as, on the 13th September in that year, 
he subscribed his name to Alleyne's Quadripartite deed 
of Dulwich College, being then of Carshalton ; probably 
Captain Poynings Heron resided here previously to Sir 
John. 

61, 1 4, for " 2,007/. 19s. 4d.," read " 2,017/. \9s.4dr 

62, I. 9, add " setatis suae 38." 

109, 1.20, for " a bend of the second and third," read " a bend of 

the second. Second and third cheque," &c. 
124, I. 15, for " lands," read " lambs." 
137, I. 5, after vicar's name, add " LL.D., who occurs vicar in 

1376."* 
137, I. 6, after " presented," add " 1 September, 1387." 
144, LIS, for " 1684," read " 1648." 
157, I. 28, for « Grindali," read " Grindalli." 
158, last line, for " bordar," read " bordure." 
175, 1.14, for " miro," read " miror." 
183, 1.6, for " Comb," read " Coombe." 
189, 1. 14, for " Resurrecto," read " Resurrectio." 

/. 15, for " Rego," read " Regno " 

1. 17, for " Januarii," read " Mar^." 
203, 1. 14, for " who departed," read " and departed." 
288, /. 11, for " 30 Eliz." read " 38 EUz." 



ADDITIONS TO REGISTER. 
" 1551, June 28. — Willia. Mapleton sepult. qui dedit paupibs. 
hujdi. pahij. p. spaim. quiqe. anno, duos denarios solvend. ad qua- 
tuo. terminos anni cora. gardianis ecclie." 

* Reg. Sudbury, fol. 26 b. 



XVI ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. 

" 1625, July 21. — Richard Vaughan, sonne to the Lord Vaughan, 
and Mrs. Bridget Lloyd, were marryed." 

Richard, only son of John, first Baron Vaughan and Earl of Car- 
berry, of the kingdom of Ireland, was created a Knight of the Bath 
at the coronation of Charles I. He served with success on the side 
of royalty, during the civil wars, and held the appointment of Lieu- 
tenant-General of Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan. In this 
capacity he greatly distinguished himself for zeal and gallantry, and 
on the 25th October, 1643, was rewarded with a seat in the British 
Parliament, by the title of Baron Vaughan of Emlyn, in the county 
of Carmarthen, and after the Restoration was appointed Lord Pre- 
sident of the Principality of Wales. 

He married, first, Bridget, daughter and heir of Thomas Lloyde, 
Esq., of Llanlees, Cardigan, as above; second, Frances, daughter 
and co-heir of Sir John Altham, Knight, of Oxby, Hertfordshire ; 
third, Lady Alice Edgerton, daughter of John Earl of Bridgewater, 
and died in 1687, having issue by his second wife only. 

" 1627, June 25.— Sir Henry Lee, Knight, father of Mrs. Smith, 
of Coombe, was buryed." 

" 1639, June 18. — Basset Cole, gentleman, and the Lady Aymie 
Mordant, the widow of S r . Robert Mordant, Knight and Baronet, 
were maryed." 

Lady Mordaunt was the daughter of Sir Austin Southerton, Knight, 
of Norfolk, and mother to Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart. — a cavalier 
who paid the penalty of his loyalty by the forfeiture of his estates. 

" 1671, November. — Mrs. Elizabeth Cleiver, wife of William Clei- 
ver, Doctr. in Divinity, was hurried in the Lady Scudamore's grave, 
in y e middle chancell, ye xxvth." 

Whether this lady was Mistris Bernard, or that " most excellent 
gentlewoman, Mrs. Ream's daughter-in-law," mentioned in the case 
of the Inhabitants of Croydon, cannot now be determined. 



ADDENDA. 



Page 5, 1. 13, after " about 1550." add, Richard Crowley, in his 
satirical epigrams, published, according to Ritson, in the same year, 
has the following : — 

The Collier of Croydon. 

It is said that in Croydon there did sometyme dwell 

A Collyer that did al other colyers excel, 

For his riches thys collyer might have been a knight, 

But in the order of knighthood he had no delight. 

Would God al our knights did mind coling no more 

Than thys collyer did knighting, as is sayd before ; 

For when none but pore collyers did with coles mell, 

At a reasonable price they did their coles sell ; 

But synce our knight collyers have had the first sale, 

We have pay'd much money, and had few sacks to tale. 

A lode, that late years for a royal was sold, 

Wyl cost now xvi shillings of sylver or gold. 

God graunt these men grace their polling to refrayne, 

Or else bryng them back to theyr old state agayne ; 

And especially the Colliar that at Croydon doth dwell, 

For men think he is cosin to the collyar of hell." 

Ibid, after I. 21, add— In "Damon and Pythias," a comedy 
written by Richard Edwards, and first acted in 1566, Grimme, the 
Collier of Croydon, is a character; and Ulpean Fulwel, in his co- 
medy of " Like wil to like quod thee Devil to the Colier," pub- 
lished in 1568, causes three of his dramatis personas, to wit, Tom 
Collier, Nichol Newfangle, and the Devil, to dance together to the 
tune of "Tom Collier of Croidon hath solde his cole." There is 
also a play called " The Historie of the Collyer," acted before 
Queen Elizabeth, in 1576-7, which relates to this same worthy. 

b 



XVI ADDENDA. 

Page 16, add as a note to line 9 — "Croinden Archiepiscopi Can- 
tuariensis, r. c. de j marca, pro defalta: In th. b. et quieta est." 
Madox's History of the Exchequer, p. 384. In the Lansdowne 
MSS. (No. 324), I find the following entry:— "31. H. 2 Croui- 
nedna Archipi. Cantuar. deb. 1. m. per def." — Records of Surrey 
and Sussex, by Le Neve. (Qu. whether this is the same fine as that 
mentioned by Madox.) 

Page 26, after I. 16, insert " 1645.— On the 15th of April the 
order undergiven was issued by the Parliament for the withdrawel 
of a detachment of 200 horse and 1 00 dragoons, which had till then 
been quarter'd in this town — there awaiting the concentration of 
the county forces. — Vide " A Diary, or an Exact Journal," No. 48. 

" Sir, — We have now received some intelligence that the rebells 
of Kent are in some measure dispersed. And therefore there being 
no further use of yo r Horse & Dragones that we wrot unto you to 
send towards Croydon, We desire you, they may bee recalled and 
disposed As you please. 

Signed in the name and by the warrant of 
the Committee of Both Kingdomes by 
Your very affectionate friends and hum- 
ble servants, 
" Darbie House, Manchester, Loudonn *." 

15 April, 1645. 

S r Thomas Fairfax." 
Page 35, I. 15, after " messuage and farm," add "and comprises 
about 400 acres of arable and wood land." 

Ibid. I. 19, after Holy Trinity, add "On an extent made in 1287, 
it was found that JefFry de Haspale held certain lands for life, to be 

* MSS. Brit. Mus. Ayscough's Cat. No. 1519, p. 44. The insurrection 
here alluded to was caused by a party of impressed men who had de- 
stroyed their convoy, whilst marching to join General Fairfax. They 
attacked and took possession of Sir Percival Hart's house at Rootham, 
and were immediately joined by the discontented of the county, to the 
number of 500 foot and horse; but Colonel Blunt being expressly 
sent against them, they were defeated and dispersed on the day of this 
order. 



ADDENDA. XV11 

inherited by William and Philip de Padyndenne. Of those held in 
fee was the manor of Croweham." — Esch. 2 Ed. I, n.25. 

Further particulars of John Gage. — (Vide pp. 43, 44). 

John Gage, as I learn from Bayley's " History and Antiquities of 
the Tower of London," was committed to that prison, by warrant 
bearing date 10th of January, 1590, and Beesley, or as he is there 
called Besseley — the cause of his misfortunes — on the 18th of De- 
cember, the same year. He appears to have occupied the " Broad 
Arrow Tower," in which room, between the first and second re- 
cesses, on the left-hand side, is yet extant the following inscription 
(eopied from Bayley) — apparently his work: — 

QVOD RATIO REDDENDA ERIT DEO CUM 
VENERIT DIES ILLA IVDICII MAGNA DE 
CVNCTIS COGITATIONIBVS VERBIS ET OPE- 
RIBVS. DNS ILLVMINABIT ASCONDITA TE- 
NEBRARVM ET MANIFESTABIT CONSILIA 
CORDIVM CVM VENERIT . . ORS. OMNE 

DE VERBIS 

VERBUM OTIOSVM QVOD LOCVTI FVERINT 
HOMINES REDDENT RATIONEM DE EO IN 

DIE JVDICII. MAT. 12. 

CVNCTA QV^S FIVNT ADDVCET DEVS IN IVDI- 
CIVM ERO OMNI ERRATO SIVE BONVM SIVE 
MALVM SIT. ECCLESIASTES, 12. 

QVOTIES DIEM ILLAM CONSIDERABO TOTO CORPORE CONTREMISCO 
SIVE ENIM COMEDO . SIVE BIBO . SIVE ALIQVID ALIVD FACIO . SEMPER 
IN AVRIBVS MEIS SON ARE VIDETVR TREMENDA ILLA VOX IVR- 
GITE MORIVI VENITE AD JVDICIVM. 

QVOD SIBI QVIS . . ERIT PR^SENTIS TEMPORE VITiE 
HOC SIBI MESSIS ERIT CVM DICITVR ITE VENITE. 

"The above pious memorial," says the antiquary, " is without 
name or date, but the characters in which it is written so closely 
correspond with the remains of an adjoining inscription as to leave 
little or no doubt of its having been made by the same person. 
This latter, though much defaced, appears to have been cut with 
surprising ingenuity, and is subscribed 'January 1591, I. Gage,'" — 

&2 



XV111 ADDENDA. 

a prisoner, he conjectures, of the Roman Catholic persuasion ; but, 
of whom, he adds, " no account has hitherto been discovered." 
Gage appears, from the memoir of his son, to have remained in 
durance upwards of thirty years, and to have outlived the "re- 
mainder of his subsistence," and the several annuities " his noble 
allies and kindred had bestowed upon him." He left issue by his 
two wives (Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Coply, Knt., of Gat- 
ton, Surrey, and " Mrs. Barnes") ; five sons — Sir Henry ; Thomas, 
author of "Travels in Spain, &c.;" George, prothonotary in Eng- 
land for the See of Rome; Francis, president of the English Coll. 
at Douay, and John, author of " The Christian Sodality, or Ca- 
tholic Hive of Bees;" and a daughter Mary: but as they were all 
born after his imprisonment, consequently they could not be natives 
of this parish. 

There appears to be some confusion in the accounts given of this 
gentleman, from which our statements in the text are made. His 
attainder, and the consequent forfeiture of the manor of Haling are 
there mentioned; yet it is also stated, that his son relinquished 
the entail in favor of his father, whose life is said to have been 
spared by the "King's reprieve." It is to be remembered that he 
had been imprisoned eleven years previous to James' succession — 
an extension of time that precluded an idea that he was at that era 
under sentence of death. Besides his unfortunate brother Robert, I 
find, from the church-register, he had two others — Edward, chris- 
tened 26 Aug. 1567, and William, christened 3 Oct. 1568— and a 
sister Mary, christened 3 Oct. 1563; which names have not yet been 
incorporated in any pedigree of this ancient family. 

Page 62, I. 9, add " setatis suae 38." 

Page 78, add as a note to line 16— "On Monday, August 11, 
1635, the following entry was made by the prelate in his diary: — 
1 One Robert Seale, of St. Alban's, came to me at Croydon and told 
me somewhat wildly about a vission he had at Shrovetide last, about 
not Preaching the word sincerely to the people ; and a hand ap- 
peared unto him, and death, and a voice bid him go tell it the 
Metropolitan of Lambeth, and made him swear he would do so ; and 
I believe the poor man was overgrown with fancy; so troubled my- 
self no further with him or it.' " — {History of the Troubles and 
Tryalof Abp.Laud, 1695, p. 50). 



ADDENDA. XIX 

Page 109, I. 8, in note, add — ["Cheque or and az. a chief of 
the first."] 

Page 113, /. 15, after " other of his papers," add — " And again 
this same witness, who appears to have been employed by the pri- 
mate on the windows both of Croydon and Lambeth palaces, affirm- 
ed, that ' he found a picture of God the Father in a window at 
Croydon and Archbishop Cranmer's arms under it, and that he 
pulled it down ;' evidence which called from Laud the remark that 
it had been placed there during the primacy of so zealous a prelate, 
as Cranmer was well known to be — and that it had been removed 
in the days of him against whom it was now advanced, in support 
of his alleged inclination to popery." — (Hist, of the Troubles of 
Abp. Laud, p. 517). 

Page 137, I. 5, after Vicar's name, add — " L.L.D., who occurs 

vicar in 1376."— (Reg. Sudbunj, fol. 265). 

Ibid. I. 6, after "presented," add— u \ September, 1387." 
Page 168, 11. 4 and 14, after " bendlets," add — " in sinister chf. a 

cross croslet." 



ADDITIONS TO REGISTER. 



1550, Aug.—" Mr. [Henry] Tonstall buryed the 21." 

Eldest son of Sir John, by his wife Penelope, daughter of Sir 
Walter Leveson, Knt., of Lilleshall, Salop. 

1551, June 28. — " Willia. Mapleton sepult. qui dedit paupibs. 
hujdi. pahij. p. spaim. quique. anno, duos denarios solvend. ad qua- 
tuo. terminos anni cora. gardianis ecclie." 

1544. — " Thorns Heyrne [Heron] obijt 2 die Octobris." 

1558. — " Sepulta fuit Mag re . Elizabeth Heron, vidua [of Thomas 
Heron, Esq.] l a die Augusti." 

1578. — " Richard Gornarde, the son of Bryan Gornarde, was 
chrystened the viij day of Marche." 

Sir Richard Gornarde, or Gurney, as he is pleased to call himself, 
born 17th of April, 1577, was the son of Bryan Gornarde, of Croy- 



XX ADDENDA. 

don, a descendant of the Gurneys, of Kendall, in Westmorland, 
— (Le Neve's MS. Pedigrees of Extinct Barts. Herald's Coll.) — 

by his wife Magdalin, daughter of Hewett. He had, I find 

from the parish register, two brothers — John, baptized 9 Dec. 1576, 
and Robert, baptized 28 May, 1681 ; and the name of Gornarde is 
frequently mentioned in this authority. In apprenticing his son to 
a Mr. Coleby, a silk-mercer in Cheapside, his father was singularly 
fortunate, as that worthy citizen at his death, bequeathed to his ap- 
prentice his shop and effects, estimated at the value of 6,O00Z. — 
Lloyd. His fortune now rapidly increased, and with it he acquired 
the reputation of great integrity and moderation, insomuch that he 
became a leading character in the city, and subsequently filled its 
highest offices. 

On Tuesday, Nov. 25, 1641, being then Lord Mayor, he enter- 
tained the king and the royal family, on his majesty's return from 
Scotland, at a cost of about 4,000/., when the king was pleased 
to confer upon him the honour of knighthood; and, on the 14th of 
the next month, the higher distinction of a baronetage. In this 
year, he caused the royal proclamation against the militia to be 
publicly read within the city, and was, for so doing, deprived of 
his mayoralty and his liberty, as we have stated in p. 25. He mar- 
ried, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Sandford, Esq., of Berch- 
ington, in the Isle of Thanet, by whom he had, Richard, who died 
vita patris, Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Lord Richardson, and 
Anne, who married Sir John Pettus, Knt., of Suffolk. His second 
wife was Elizabeth, daughter of one Richard Gosson, a London 
goldsmith. He was buried at St. Olive's Jury. 

1582. — " Samuell Ffynche [primus] vycar of Croydon & Eliza- 
beth Kinge the daughter of John Kinge & Clemence, were married 
the viij th day of Marche, anno dni. 1582, by Richarde Worde, Par- 
son of Bedington, under the lycence of Edmunde Archbishop of 
Canterburie's grace." 

1585. — " Memorandu. that the xxv th day of Julye word was 
broght to the towne of Croydon, that there lay one dead in a close 
nye Pollarde hill, who was putrified & stank in most horrible man- 
ner; wherefor none cold be gotten by the officers to bringe him ; 
whereupon he lay there [till] the Tuesday at nyghte after, beinge 
the xxvii th day, at which time the Vicar [Samuel Fynche, primus~\ 



ADDENDA. XXI 

hired one Robert Woodwarde, & they two went unto him & found 
hym lyeng on his backe w th his legs pulled up to hym & his knees 
lying wide, his right hand lying on his right legge & his left cross 
his stomacke, the skin of his face & the hear [of] his hed beaten of 
w th the weather, no pportyon in the lineaments of his body to 
be proaved, they ware so putryned, a rnt. rotten canvas dublet & 
his hose ragged, a blacke felt hat w th a cypres bande & two laces 
tyed at the ende of the band. Woodward digged the grave hard by 
hym where he lay & they two pulled hym in, w th each of them a 
large forke." 

1585. — " Wm. Edsone beinge sicke (as he confessed to his wife, 
Willm. Andrews & one Hedd of Streatham, yet constrained 
hymself to goe forth to mowinge at Streetham the xxix th day of 
July, & comming home from thence betweene Streatham bridge & 
the further Norberie gate, fell downe dead, & was buried the xxv th 
day of Julye." 

■ " Roger Pryce leaninge on a calyver charged w th 

hayle shotte on his left side, his matche m the same hande, the 
peece discharged soddenlye & kylled hyme presently, savinge as 
much tyme as wherein he prayed the standers by to pray to God 
for hym, & soe fallinge downe desiered God hartely to forgive hym 
all hys synnes, & soe dyed the xxvi th day of Juely. And was buried 
the xxvij th ." 

1598. — " Samuell Ffynche \_primus] Vicar of Croydon & Elsa- 
bethe Swan ware married at Sandersteed the xij th day of June." 

1607, April. — " Rycharde Esteinge, a young man, beinge killed 
suddenly e w th a stroke of thunder & lightninge on the [neck] & 
under the right eare: but nothinge but blacknesse seene & the 

of swealed, was buried the xix th day: And smelt of 

Brimstone exceedingle." 

1612. — " Elizabeth Bradberie, neece to the most Reverende 
ffather of famous memorie Dr John Whitegifte sometime Archb. of 
Cant, dieinge in London was brought to Croydon and buried in the 
Chappell where he lyes the xxix th day of June, anno dni. 1612, 
according to her request." Vide Epitaph, p. 205. 

"M re - Marie Abbot, Wydowe: Syster in Lawe to the 



XX11 ADDENDA. 

Archbishop of Canterbure was buried the xv th day of September. 
Anno Dni. 1624." 

Daughter of John Millet, Esq., of Guilford, and widow of An- 
thony Abbot, Esq., of the same place, next brother to the arch- 
bishop of that name. 

1625, July 21. — " Richard Vaughan, sonne to the Lord Vaughan, 
and Mrs. Bridget Lloyd, were marryed." 

Richard, only son of John, first Baron Vaughan and Earl of Car- 
berry, of the kingdom of Ireland, to which titles he succeeded, was 
created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. He 
served with success on the side of royalty, during the civil wars, 
and held the appointment of Lieutenant-General of Carmarthen, 
Pembroke, and Cardigan. In this capacity he greatly distinguished 
himself for zeal and gallantry, and on the 25th October, 1648, was 
rewarded with a seat in the British Parliament, by the title of Baron 
Vaughan of Emlyn, in the county of Carmarthen, and after the 
Restoration was appointed Lord President of the Principality of 
Wales. 

He married, first, Bridget, daughter and heir of Thomas Lloyde, 
Esq., of Lanlees, Cardigan, as above; second, Frances, daughter 
and co-heir of Sir John Altham, Knight, of Oxby, Hertfordshire ; 
third, Lady Alice Edgerton, daughter of John Earl of Bridgewater, 
and died in 1687, having issue by his second wife only. 

1627, June 25. — " Sir Henry Lee, Knight, father of Mrs. Smith, 
of Coombe, was buryed." 

1628, Dec. 6. — Sepult. " Margaret Hatton, daughter of S* Robert 
Hatton [and niece to Sir Christopher Hatton, K.B., and Sir Thomas 
Hatton, Bart.] 

1630, Sep. — Sepult. " The Lady Margaret Abbot." 

Daughter of Bartholomew Barnes, Esq., and second wife of Alder- 
man Sir Maurice Abbot, Knt., Lord Mayor in 1638, and fifth brother 
of the Archbishop. 

. Oct. 28. — Sepult. " Richard Tomerton, Keeper of the 

Archbishop's house." 

1631, June 25th. — " William Arnold, a young man, et magna spei, 
was buryed." 

1633, Jan. 30.— Sepult. " Ralph Smith, yeoman of the guard." 



ADDENDA. XX111 

1636, Sep. 9.— Bap. " Thomas Harvy, the sonne of Mr. Eliab 
Harvy." 

Thomas Harvey was nephew to Dr. William Harvey, the cele- 
brated discoverer of the circulation of the blood. Eliab was an 
opulent Turkey merchant, the Doctor's fifth brother, and eventually 
the inheritor of the greater part of his effects. There are, I believe, 
several of this family buried at Croydon, among whom was Daniel 
Harvey, a merchant of London, and fourth brother of the Doctor. 

1637, May. — " Christopher Heydon, the sonne of S r . John Hey- 
don, Knt." 

Sir John Heydon, of Barkinstrop, Norfolk, was Lieutenant of the 
Ordnance to Charles I., from the first muster of the royal army in 
1642, to his death; 16th Oct. 1653. 

This Christopher is said to have been afterwards a Knight, — 
{BlomefieWs Hist, of Norfolk, by Parkin, vol. vi, p. 510), but I do 
not find his name among the MS. lists in the Coll. of Arms. 

1639, June 18. — " Basset Cole, gentleman, and the Lady Aymie 
Mordant, the widow of S r - Robert Mordant, Knight and Baronet, 
were marryed." 

Lady Mordaunt was the daughter of Sir Austin Southerton, 
Knight, of Norfolk, and mother to Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart. — a 
cavalier who paid the penalty of his loyalty by the forfeiture of his 
estates. 

1641, Nov. — "John Tonstall, the sonne of Henry Tonstall, 
Esquire, sonn and heire of S r - John Tonstall of Adscombe, Knight, 
was baptized." 

Dec. 15. — "Michael Miller, Esquire, and Barbara Astry, 

the daughter of S r . Henry Astry, Knight," [of Harlington, Beds.] 

1650, Aug. 3. — " S r - Edward Parteridge's sonn buryed." 

Sir Edward Parteridge, knighted 31 July, 1641, was of Langley, 
Kent. 

1666, May 22.— Sepult. " Mr. William Austry, Curate of Croy- 
don," [under the Rev. Dr. Clewer!] 

1669, June 9. — Bap. " Mrs. Margaret Sheldon, daughter of Sir 
Joseph." 

Sir Joseph Sheldon, Knt., was nephew to Archbp. Sheldon, and 
Lord Mayor in 1676. 

1671, November. — " Mrs. Elizabeth Clewer, wife of William 



XXIV . ADDENDA. 

Clewer, Doct r - in Divinity, was hurried in the Lady Scudamore's 
grave, in y e middle chancell, y e xxvth." 

Whether this lady was Mistris Bernard, or that " most excellent 
gentlewoman, Mrs. Reame's daughter-in-law," mentioned in the case 
of the Inhabitants of Croydon, cannot now be determined. 

1674, Sept. 5. — Sepult. " Mr. John Morris, Curate." 

1675, Ap. 11. — " Mr. Wm. Crow, Schoolmaster, was buried." 
This is the suicide chaplain of Whitgift's Hospital, for an account 

of whom vide p. 70, where the time of his death is incorrectly given. 
Wood informs us, that the Rev. John Osborne, M.A., commenced "a 
Catalogue of our English writers on the Old Testament," and had 
printed about eight sheets when Crowe's catalogue appeared, which 
caused him to relinquish his design. The same author also tells us, 
that Crowe " took many things" from the " Felix Consortium" of Ed- 
ward Leigh, when he composed his " Elenchus Scriptorum in Sacram 
Scripturam, &c." London, 1672; which is, questionless, "the cata- 
logue" under a different cognomen. 



RARE PLANTS FOUND AT CROYDON. 



Eriophorum vaginatum — Single-headed Cotton-grass, or Hares 
tail Rush. 

Agrostis spica-venti — Silky Bent-grass. 

Centunculus minimus — Bastard Pimpernel. 

A sperula cynanchica — Squimancy-wort. 

Galeum anglicum — Wall Bed- straw. 

Anagallis arvensis, y — Blue Pimpernel. 

Verbascum lychnitis — White Mullein. 

Vinca minor — Small Periwinkle. 

Chlora perfoliata — Yellow-wort. 

Butomus umbellatus — Flowering Rush. 

Dianthus armeria — Deptford Pink. 

Cerostium semi-decandrum, (3 — Mouse-ear Chickweed. 

~— arvense — Field Chickweed. 



ADDENDA. XXV 

Cistus surrejanus — Dotted-leaved Cistus. 

Mentha piperita — Peppermint. 

Origanum vulgare — Common Marjoram. 

Limosella aquatica — Water Mud-wort. 

Trifolium scabrum — Rough Trefoil. 

Hypericum montanum — Mountain St. John's Wort. 

Prenanthes muralis — Ivy-leaved Lettuce. 

Carduus pratensis — Meadow Thistle. 

Phascum curvicollum — Crooked-stalked Earth-moss. 

curvisetum — Short bent-stalked Earth-moss. 

Trichostomum flexifolium — Wave-leaved Fringe-moss. 

Tortula aristata — Short-pointed Screw-moss. 

Campanula rapunculus — Rampions. 

Splachnum ampullaceum — Purple Gland-moss. 

Dianthus deltoides — Maiden Pink. 

Genista Anglica — Needle Furze, or Petty Whin. 

Hypericum elodes — Marsh St. Peter's Wort. 

Rosa spinosissima — Burnet Rose. 

Scabiosa columbaria — Lesser Field Scabious. 

Spiraea Filipendula— Drop-wort. 

Trifolium ochroleucum — Yellow-flowered Trefoil. 

Triticum caninum — Bearded Wheat-grass. 

Ophrys apifera — Bee Orchis. 

muscifera — Fly Orchis. 



CORRIGENDA. 



11, I. 8, for " St. Peter," read " All Saints." 

70, /. 13, for "of," read " on. " 

99, I. 4, for " Tentys," read " Fyennes." 
109, I. 20, for " a bend of the second and third," rearf " a bend of the 

second. Second and third, &c." 
127, I. 14. for " 1567," read " 1568." 
131, J. 23, for " 25th," rearf " 27th." 

144, /. 18, for " 1684," read " 1648." 

145, note %, for " vide Appendix," read " Ibid." 
155, Z. 28, /or "Grindah," read " Grindalli." 
158, Jastf line, for " bordar," read " bordure." 
175, I. 14, for " miro," read " miror." 

183, ;. 6, /or " Comb," read " Coombe." 

189, I. 14, for " Resurrecto," read " Resurrectio." 
™ — I. 15, /or " Rego," read " Regno." 

— J. 1 7, for " Januari," read " Marij " 

200. The error alluded to has since been corrected. 

203, I. 14, for " who departed," read " and departed." 

209. I find, on examining the inscription commemorative of John 
Redynge, Esq., given in this page, that it contains more than one error. 
It is well known that Henry VIII. had no other son than Edward his 
successor; therefore I would read Henry VII. for Henry VIII., and as 
Redynge is termed "late treasurer to prince Henry," it is clear that he did 
not live to see his master on the throne ; consequently, the date of his 
death is also incorrect. Perhaps we should read 1508 for 1680, an error not 
unlikely to occur in transcription, and which is rendered more probable 
by the absence of the name of Redynge from the church register of the 
latter year. 

288, I 11, for " 30 Eliz." read " 38 Eliz." 




The New Church at Croydon. 



CHAPTER I. 



laarlg P^tgtorg anti present j&tate* 



Croydon, formerly called Croindene, Croiden, 
Crondon, and by the learned Camden, Cradi- 
den, (Saxon Ejio;$baene), a large and handsome 
market town, lying nine miles and a half south 
of London, is situated on the edge of Bansted 
Downs, and contiguous to the spring-head of the 
river Wandle. The parish is about thirty-six 
miles in circumference, and covers a space of 
nearly ten thousand acres. It is bounded, on the 



* HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

east, by Beckenham and Wickham ; on the west, 
by Mitcham and Beddington; on the north, by 
Streatham and Lambeth; and on the south, by 
Couldson, Addington, and Sandersted; and in- 
cludes the hamlets of Addiscombe, Croham, 
Coombe, Haling, Shirley, Woodside, Waddon, 
Thornton Heath, Broad Green, and Barrack 
Town ; the manors of Waddon, Whitehorse, Nor- 
bury, Haling, and Croham; and part of Nor- 
wood. 

Nothing can be affirmed with certainty, in re- 
gard to the derivation of the name of this place : 
Ducarel was inclined to think that it might have 
its origin from the old Norman or French word 
Craye or Craire, chalk, and the Saxon word Dun, 
a hill; which supposition may be strengthened 
by the fact, that a large quantity of chalk has, 
till lately, been dug out here : whilst another writer 
derives its name from Crone, sheep, and Dene, a 
valley. 

The locality of the ancient city of Noviomagus, 
mentioned in Antinonus' " Itinerary *," was sup- 
posed by Talbot* and Dr. Stukelyf to have been 
at or near Croydon J ; whilst Somner, Burton, the 

* Burton's Commentary on Antinonus' "Itinerary," p. 373. 

f Dr. Stukely, in his " Itinerarium Curiosum,'' placed it at Cray- 
ford, but afterwards retracted his opinion. Vide Ducarel's Hist, of 
Croydon, p. 2. 

I Several Roman pieces of money have "been found here — two gold 



EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 3 

Bishops Stillingfleet and Gibson have placed it 
at Crayford in Kent; and Camden, Gale, and 
Horsley, at Woodcote. 

As the time when this city was known to exist 
is so far removed, its situation so unsatisfactorily 
described, and the opinions of these celebrated 
antiquaries so various, it is more than probable 
that its site may ever remain involved in its pre- 
sent obscurity. 

The manor of Croydon was in the possession of 
the see of Canterbury, so early as the reign of Wil- 
liam the Conqueror. For, in Domesday Book we 
read " In the hundred of Waleton*, Archbishop 
Lanfranc holds Croindene in demesne. In King 
Edward the Confessor's time, it was rated at 80 
hides, and now at 16 hides and 1 virgate. The 
arable is 20 carucates. In demesne, are 4 caru- 
cates and 48 villans, and 25 bordars with 34 ca- 
rucates. Here is a church and one mill, in value 
5s.; 8 acres of meadow and wood for 200 hogs. 
Of the land of this manor, Restoldus holds seven 
hides of the archbishop, and Radulphus one hide, 

coins of Valentinian and a brass coin of Trajan, were dug up in the 
town in 1791, (see also " Whitehorse, " Chap. III.) ; and Bray, in the 
" Archaeologia, Vol. IX. p. 104, affirms, that the Roman road running 
from Arundel to London, and passing through this city, might be 
traced on Broad Green. 

* Croydon is in the hundred of Wallington ( Waleton), now a small 
hamlet in the parish of Beddington. 

B2 



4 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

they have from thence 71., and 8s. of gabel (or 
tax). The whole, in the time of King Edward 
the Confessor, was worth 121.; now 27/. to the 
archbishop, to his men, 10/. 10s." In 1291, it 
was taxed at 20/.*; in 1322, at the samef ; in 
Archbishop Bourchier's time, it was valued at 
551. Ss. lid. per annum\\ and in the Survey in 
1646, at 274/. 19s. §\d., exclusive of the timber. 

The parish is assessed at the sum of 1,444/. 
9s. , to the land-tax, and is within the jurisdiction 
of the county magistrates, of whom those acting 
for the division hold a petty session weekly. 

The town extends about a mile in length. 
The present High Street was originally only a 
bridle-way running through the fields. The old or 
lower town, called Old Croydon, formerly cover- 
ing the same space, was situated farther from 
London than New Croydon §, and reached a great 
way towards Beddington, the ruins of which were 
standing in 1783 1|. 

The houses are for the most part well built, 
the streets generally paved, the inns large and 
well conducted. The town, having lately been 
lighted with gas, presents altogether a very dif- 

* Vide " Bodleian Valor," Bodleian Library. 

f Reg. Reynolds, fol. 79. b. 

% Cart. Misc. Lamb. MS. Library, Vol. XIII. No. 14. 

§ Talbot, Leland's Itinerary, Vol. III. p. 176. 

II Ducarel. 



EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 5 

ferent appearance to that ancient Croydon, de- 
scribed in an account written in the reign of 
Queen Elizabeth, which says : " The streets were 
deep hollow ways and very dirty, the houses ge- 
nerally with wooden steps into them — and the in- 
habitants in general were smiths and colliers." 

It appears by the termination of this sentence, 
that the inhabitants were, in former times, almost 
exclusively employed as colliers or charcoal burn- 
ers, a trade for which they have been celebrated 
by several of our elder poets; among others, by 
Alexander Barklay, in his Egloges, published 
about 1550*. Thomas Peend in his fable of 
" Hermaphroditus and Salmacis " published in 
1565, says, that Vulcan 

"A Croydon Sangwine right did seme." 

And Greene, in his " Quip for an Upstart Courtier," 
published in 1 592, has the following — " Marry, 
quoth hee that lookt like Lucifer, though I am 
black, I am not the divell, but indeed a collyer 
of Croydon." 

In the tragedy of "Locrine" published in 1595, 
and by some erroneously attributed to Shake- 
speare, we find the following distich : — 

" The colliers of Croydon, 
The rustics of Roydon." 

* Vide page 23 , 



6 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Besides which we have the following, in no way 
favourable, description of Croydon and its colliers, 
in a volume of poems, called " The Nightingale, 
Sheretine, and Mariana, &c." by one Patrick 
Hannay, published in 1622. 

" In midst of these stands Croydon, cloth'd in blacke, 
In a low bottome sinke of all these hills ; 
And is receipt of all the durtie wracke, 
Which from their tops still in abundance trills, 
The unpav'd lanes with muddie mire it fills 
If one shower falls ; or, if that blessing stay, 
You may well smell, but never see your way. 

" For never doth the flowre-perfumed aire, 

Which steals choice sweets from other blessed fields, 

With panting breast take any resting there, 
Nor of that prey a portion to it yields; 
For those harsh hills his comming either shields, 

Or else his breath, infected with their kisses, 

Cannot inrich it with his fragrant blisses. 

" And those who there inhabit, suting well 

With such a place, doe either Nigros seeme, 
Or harbingers for Pluto, prince of hell; 

Or his fire-beaters one might rightly deeme ; 
There sight would make a soule of hell to dreeme, 
Besmear'd with sut, and breathing pitchie smoake, 
Which (save themselves) a living wight would choke. 

" These, with the demi-gods, still disagreeing 
(As vice with virtue ever is at jarre) 
With all who in the pleasant woods have being, 
Doe undertake an everlasting warre, 
Cut down their groves, and after doe them skarre 
And in a close-pent fire their arbours burne, 
Whileas the muses can doe nought but mourne. — 



EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 7 

" The other sylvans, with their sight affrighted, 
Doe flee the place whereas these elves resort, 
Shunning the pleasures which them erst delighted, 
When they behold these grooms of Pluto's court ; 
"While they doe take their spoiles, and count it sport 
To spoil these dainties that them so delighted, 
And see them with their ugly shapes affrighted. 

" To all proud dames, I wish no greater hell 
Who doe disdaine of chastly profered love, 
Then to that place confm'd there ever dwell; 

That place their pride's deare price might justly prove, 
For if (which God forbid) my dear should move 
Me not come nie her, — for to passe my troth, — 
Place her but there, and I shall keepe mine oath." 

And again — there is a comedy intitled "Grim, the 
Collier of Croydon, or the Devil and his Dame, 
with the Devil and St. Dunstan, by J. T.," pub- 
lished in 1662, 

When the inhabitants discontinued their sooty 
avocations, I have not been able to learn; but 
Ducarel, writing in 1783, says, Croydon "is sur- 
rounded with hills well covered with wood, 
whereof great store of charcoal is made," 

Within this parish and manor are seven bo- 
roughs : Coombe, Selsdon, Bencham, Addiscombe, 
Woodside, Shirley, and Croham; from each of 
which a constable is annually appointed at the 
general court leet held for the manor of Croy- 
don in Easter week, when a head constable, two 
petty constables, and two head-boroughs are no- 
minated for the last-mentioned place. 



8 HISTORY OP CROYDON. 

There are also eight beadlewick lands, the 
owners of which, in their turn, serve the office of 
beadle ; they collect the fines and amerciaments, 
but, with the reeves, receive no emolument. 

The customs of the manor are as follows : — 

1. One heriot, being the best beast of every 
copyholder dying seised of any messuage or tene- 
ment, not lying within the four crosses*, shall be 
paid for every such messuage or tenement ; and if 
he have no quick cattle, then three shillings and 
sixpence for a dead heriot. 

2. On the death of every copyholder for life, 
three shillings and sixpence for a dead heriot, 
and no more. 

3. If any person to whom a right of copyhold 
shall descend shall die before admittance, one 
quick heriot is due for every messuage or tene- 
ment, and no more; and for want of a quick he- 
riot, three shillings and sixpence for a dead he- 
riot. 

4. If a surrender be made of a copyhold to any 
person being no copyholder before, then, he is to 

* These crosses were thus described in the reign of Elizabeth: 
the first is at BurchalPs House, in an elm tree — the second is at the 
pound — the third is at Little Alms House Corner — the fourth at 
Dodd's corner, in an elm tree, against the Catharine Wheel Corner. 
Their exact situation cannot now be discovered ; but the copyhold 
estates lying within the square originally formed by these four crosses, 
are exempt from the payment of heriots. 



EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 9 

fine at the will of the lord, and to pay three shil- 
lings and sixpence for a dead heriot, and no re- 
lief. 

5. If a surrender be made of a copyhold to any 
copyholder, there is due to the lord three shil- 
lings and sixpence for a dead heriot, and a relief, 
which is the extent of the rent (i. e. the quit-rent) 
by the year due to the lord, and no more. 

6. Copyholds descend to the youngest son; 
and, no son, then to the youngest daughter; and 
so to the youngest in every degree. 

7. All copyholders who have any estate of in- 
heritance, may strip and waste, but the tenant for 
life may do neither. 

8. No copyholder may let a lease of his copy- 
hold, without licence of the lord, for more than 
three years, and is to give to the lord for every 
year that he is to have licence to let his copyhold, 
sixpence, and no more. 

The quit-rents are collected by the reeves an- 
nually chosen by the homage jury, at the general 
court baron; there are eight reeveswick lands; 
the reeves are generally chosen in rotation. 

There were anciently some grammar-schools in 
this town, for, in the register of Archbishop 
Courtney*, it is recorded, that on the 31st of 
May, 1393, John Makheyt, master of the gram- 
mar-schools at Croydon, was ordained a deacon 

* Fol. 182 b. 



10 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

at Maidstone — but of these, no traces are now to 
be discovered. 

Besides the school founded and endowed by 
Archbishop Tenison*, there is one upon the Lan- 
castrian system, established in 1812, for the edu- 
cation of indigent children of every religious per- 
suasion; for which institution, a school-house was 
erected at North End in 1829. Another, the 
national or parish charity school, conducted on 
the principle of the late Dr. Bell, and instituted 
in 1812, is now held in the school-house adjoining 
and belonging to Archbishop Whitgift's Hospital. 
In addition to these, there is a school of industry 
for female children conducted in the palace cha- 
pel, and an infants' school under the patronage of 
the ladies — all which are supported by voluntary 
contributions. 

The Society of Friends have also a large esta- 
blishment, situated in Park-lane; which was re- 
moved here in 1825, from Islington, where it had 
existed for more than a century. It is supported 
by subscription, and provides for the education 
and maintenance of 150 boys and girls. 

On the common has lately been erected, partly 
from a grant of 3,500/., and partly from a loan 
to be paid off by instalments from the parlia- 
mentary commission, a chapel of ease, dedicated 
to St. James, after a design of R. Wallace, Esq. 

* Vide post, Chap. IV. 



EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 11 

The first stone was laid by the Rev. J. C. Lock- 
wood, 16th May, 1827, and the consecration per- 
formed by his present Grace, 31st Jan. 1829. It 
is a brick building, of the pointed style of archi- 
tecture, and has a small campanile tower at the 
west end, with pinnacles at each angle. It con- 
tains 1,200 sittings, of which 400 are free. 

A chapel of the same order, dedicated to St. 
Peter, was erected about the same time on Beu- 
lah-hill, after a design of J. Savage, Esq., from 
funds provided in a similar manner. The first 
stone was laid 12th Nov. 1827. This elegant 
edifice contains 1,500 sittings. It has a small 
tower at each extremity, and several richly crock- 
eted pinnacles at the west front. These two cha- 
pels are perpetual curacies, in the patronage of 
the vicar of Croydon. 

Several denominations of dissenters have meet- 
ing-houses here : the Quakers, in Park-lane, which 
is numerously attended ; the Independents have a 
neat Gothic chapel in George-street; the Wes- 
leyan Methodists, a chapel at North End, erect- 
ed in 1829; and the Anabaptists, at Pump Pail. 
There are some others of minor importance. 

The barracks, erected in 1794, are at the en- 
trance of the town by Mitcham, and were origin- 
ally intended as a temporary station for cavalry, 
during the preparation of troops for foreign ser- 
vice. They contain accommodation for three 



12 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

troops of cavalry, with a hospital for 34 patients, 
an infirmary, stabling for 192 horses, a store- 
room for 1,000 sets of harness with field equip- 
ments, riding- house, and the accustomed offices. 

The present court-house and corn-market, built 
after a design of the late Samuel Pepys Cockerell, 
Esq., at an expense of about 8,000/., defrayed by 
the proceeds accruing from the sale of waste land 
belonging to the parish, disposed of by act of 
Parliament in 1806, was first opened in the sum- 
mer of 1809. It is a neat stone edifice surmount- 
ed by a cupola containing a clock, and comprises, 
in the upper story, a cotirt for the trial of civil 
causes at the county assizes (which are held here 
alternately with Guilford), with rooms for the 
judges, sheriffs, and grand jury ; where is also held, 
every alternate week, the Court of Requests for 
the recovery of debts under 51. The ground-floor 
is reserved for a corn-market, and during the as- 
sizes is appropriated to the Criminal Court. 

The old market house, built at the cost of 
Francis Tirrell, citizen, in the year 1566, was 
pulled down in 1807, when the following inscrip- 
tion was discovered — 

" This Markett House was buylt att the coste and charges of 
Francis Tirrell, citizen and grocer of London, who was born in this 
towne and departed this worlde in Sept. 1609." 

The butter market, situate in High Street, 



EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 13 

was erected in 1808, at a cost of 1,219/, the mo- 
ney arising from the same fund. The markets 
are held on Saturday. 

The prison, situated behind the corn market, 
and occupying the site of the Old Town Hall, is 
a substantial brick building, erected in 1803 by 
a subscription among the inhabitants, the lower 
part only of which is used for the confinement of 
prisoners, the upper being let as a warehouse. 

The little alms houses, described, in 1722, as 
** nine small low inconvenient houses, wherein are 
usually placed the parish poor," are situated near 
the church, and must have been built previous to 
1528, as in that year a rent-charge of 11. was 
given to this charity by Joan Price. In 1629, 
Arnold Gold well gave 40/. towards their re-erec- 
tion; and, in 1775, they were enlarged by the 
addition of two new buildings for twelve poor re- 
sidents, with funds received from the then Earl of 
Bristol, and a voluntary subscription among the 
principal inhabitants. 

The workhouse, situated on Duppas Hill, to the 
westward of the town, was erected about 1727, on 
a piece of ground given (inter alia) by deed in 
1629, by Sir William Walter, to the inhabitants 
of Croydon, for the purpose of digging gravel for 
mending the parish roads and other uses, and is 
capable of accommodating above 160 persons. 

There is an iron rail-road passing from Wands- 



14 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

worth through this town, to the chalk-pits at 
Merstham; also a canal, opened 22nd October, 
1809, which, after running from the north end of 
the town through Norwood, Penge Common, Sy- 
denham, Forest Wood, and New Cross, falls into 
the Thames at Rotherhithe. 

The population of Croydon, as shewn by the 
census of 1831, amounts to 12,447* inhabitants, 
and 2,431 houses. In 1783, there were between 
700 and 800 houses in the town, and the inhabit- 
ants were computed at rather more than 5 to each f 
house. In 1801, the census returned 5,743 in- 
habitants, and 1,074 houses; in 1811, 7,801 in- 
habitants, and 1,474 houses; and in 1821, 9,254 
inhabitants, and 1,639 houses. 

By the recent Reform Act, 2 Will. IV. c.45, 
Croydon is appointed one of the polling places 
for the eastern division of the county of Surrey J. 

We have been told§, but I know not on what 
authority, that King James I., the first institutor 
of regulations relating to horse- racing, held Croy- 

* An extra-parochial spot, between Croydon and Addington, con- 
tains about 100 inhabitants. 

f Ducarel's Hist, of Croydon, Appendix, p. 156. 

| The Members returned were — John Ivatt Briscoe, Esq., and 
Aubrey William Beauclerk, Esq. ; the numbers at the conclusion of 
the poll being, for Briscoe, 1667; Beauclerk, 1163; Allen, 849; 
and Lainson, 250. The votes of the parish of Croydon were as fol- 
lows — for Briscoe, 174; Beauclerk, 117; Allen, 67; Lainson, 15. 

§ Vide " The Horse," published by the Society for the Diffusion 
of Useful Knowledge. 



EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 15 

don and Enfield chase in the greatest estimation 
as resorts for this his favourite pastime. The 
amusements of Croydon are now confined to oc- 
casional assemblies held at the Greyhound; the 
theatre, erected in 1800, which has of late years 
been but seldom open; and the fairs, one, the 
principal, falling on the 2nd October, and conti- 
nuing for three days, and the other on the 5th of 
July and two following days. 



16 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



CHAPTER II. 



©fwottologg. 



Having given a brief sketch of the town and 
some of its public buildings, I shall reserve for a 
future chapter a detailed description of the 
church, palace, and charitable institutions; and 
proceed to lay before the reader a chronological 
account of the remarkable events relating to this 
populous town. 

1185 — The town amerced one mark for a 
default*. 

1200 — Two women, having stolen some 
clothes at Croindone, were pursued to South- 
fleet, where they were seized, imprisoned, and 
afterwards tried by the Lord Henry de Cobham 
and other gentlemen of the county, who adjudged 
them to undergo the fire-ordeal (ad 'portandum 
calidum ferrum). By this cruel and supersti- 
tious test of innocence, one was acquitted, the 

* Vide Madox's History of the Exchequer, p. 384. 



CHRONOLOGY. 17 

other condemned and afterwards drowned in a 
pond called Bikepool*. 

1264— On the 14th of May, the Londoners, 
flying from the battle of Lewes, where they had 
taken part with the barons against Henry III., 
were intercepted at Croydon by a detachment 
of the king's forces then lying at Tonbridge 
castle, who put them to the sword with great 
slaughter f. 

1270 — In this year, John, the celebrated and 
seventh Earl Warren, dated an instrument from 
Creyndone%, stating his intention to stand to the 
judgment of the court, after his outrage on Alan 
Lord Zouch of Ashby and his son Roger, on 
pain of excommunication and forfeiture of his es- 
tates §.; 

1273; — Archbishop Kilwardby obtained a grant 
of a market to be held every Wednesday ||. 

1276 — This same archbishop obtained a grant 

* Vide Blount's " Ancient Tenures and Customs of Manors." 

f Vide Holingshed's Chronicles, ed. 1585, Vol. III. fol. 269. 

% Claus. 54 Hen. III. m. 5. 

§ This outrage, committed in Westminster-hall, was occasion- 
ed by an estate being adjudged to Lord Zouch, which was un- 
justly claimed by the fiery earl, who, when the verdict was pronounc- 
ed, giving loose to the natural vehemence of his temper, drew Upon 
that nobleman and his son, and almost killed the father, and severe- 
ly wounded the son. He was fined 10,000 marks, which the King 
afterwards remitted to 8,400. 

|| Cart. 5 E.I. m. 24. 

C 



18 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

of a fair to be held for nine days, beginning on 
the 16th of May*. 

1286— On the 15th of December, William, 
only son of John Plantagenet, seventh Earl of 
Warren and Surrey, was unfortunately killed in a 
tournament at Croydon. Stowe has thus record- 
ed his death : — " An. reg. 15 Ed. I. William War- 
ren, sonne and hey re of John Warren, Earl of 
Surrey, in a tornement at Croyden, was by the 
challenger intercepted and cruelly slaine-|\" 

1314 — Archbishop Reynolds obtained a grant 
of a market to be held here on Thursday, and a 
fair on the vigil and morrow of St. Matthew's 
Day J. 

1343 — Archbishop Stratford obtained a like 
grant of a market to be held on Saturday, and a 
fair on the feast of St. John the Baptist §. 

1352 — On the 18th of February, Archbishop 
I slip granted to Robert Farnham and William 
Chober, for the term of their natural lives, a 
messuage and nine acres of land in Croydon, 
which had escheated to him upon the death of 
John Latyn, Silvestria his wife, and their son 

* Cart. 5 E. I. m. 24. 

f Stowe*s Annals, p. 311 ; Watson's Lives of the Earls of Warren 
and Surrey. 
X Cart. 8 E. II. m. 15. 
§ Ryley, p. 586. 



CHRONOLOGY. 19 

William, to whom a like grant of the premises 
had been formerly made by Archbishop Strat- 
ford *. 

1362 — On the 22nd of February, Archbishop 
Islip granted to Thomas de Kendale a mes- 
suage and nine acres of land, with their appur- 
tenances, in Croydon, which escheated to him on 
the death of the before-mentioned John Latyn, 
Silvestria his wife, and William their son, for a 
hundred years, paying ten shillings rent per an- 
num^. 

1382— On the 20th of March, Sir William 
Walworth, the patriotic Lord Mayor of London, 
was appointed Keeper of Croydon Park %. 

1412 — On the 30th of November, the unfortu- 
nate James I. of Scotland, signed at this place a 
deed of general confirmation to Sir William Doug- 
las of Drumlanrig ; by which it is evident that 
he was then at Croydon palace in the custody 
of Archbishop Arundel. This grant, preserved 
in facsimile in Anderson's " Diplomatum et Nu- 
mismatum Scotitz Thesaurus" is as follows: — 

" J amis, throu the grace of God Kynge of Scottis, Till all that this 
lettre heris or seis sendis gretynge. Wit ze that we have grauntit, 
and be this presentis lettres grauntis a speciall confirm atin in the 
maiste forme till oure traiste and wele belofit cosyng Sir William of 
Douglas of Drumlanrig of all the landis that he is possessit and 

* Reg. Tslip. fol. 44 a. f Cart. Miscell. Vol. X. No. 20. 

% Reg. Courtney, fol. 37 a. 

C2 



20 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

chartrit of within the kyngdome of Scotlande, that is for to say, the 
landisof Drumlanrig, of Hawyke, and of Selkirke; the whilkis chartris 
and possessiouns be this lettre we conferme, and wil for the mare 
sekernes this oure confimatioune be formabilli efter the fourme of 
oure Chaunsellure, and the tenor of his chartris, selit with our grete 
sele in tyme to come. In witnes of the whilkis this presentis lettres 
we wrate with our propre hande under the signet usit in selyng of 
our lettres as now at Croidoune the last daie of November, the zer 
ofourLorde, i mo -cccc°xij°." 

1531 — John Hewes, a draper of London, was 
made to abjure, for saying that he heard the vicar 
of Croydon [Thillips] preach openly, " that there 
is as much baudry kept by going in pilgrimage to 
Wilsedon or Mouswel, as in the stews beside, &c.*" 

About this time, at the palace, John Frith, 
(who afterwards suffered martyrdom at Smith- 
field, July 4, 1533), was heard in defence of his 
opinions, before the commissioners, Archbishop 
Cranmer, Lord Cromwell, Stokeleye bishop of 
London, Dr. Heath, and others, appointed by 
the king for that purpose. When travelling 
here from the Tower in custody of two of the 
archbishop's household, they, fearing for his life, 
advised him to make his escape; but he refus- 
ed, telling them "that if they went away and 
left him alone, he would come to Craydon him- 
self, and appear before the bishop f." — On the 

* Fox, Vol. II. p. 592. 
t "Epitomy of Ecclesiastical History." By J. Shurley. 1683. 
Part 2, p. 39. 



CHRONOLOGY. 21 

night of his arrival at Croydon, as we are told by 
Fox, who gives a very minute account of this pro- 
ceeding, " he was well entertained in the porter's 
lodge*." 

1542 — On Trinity Sunday, Archbishop Cran- 
mer had before him, at his consistory at Croy^ 
don, all the prebendaries and preachers of Can- 
terbury cathedral, when he argued with them 
concerning the diversity of their doctrines f. 
Their names were — Richard Thornden, Arthur 
Sentleger, Richard Parkhurst, Nicholas Ridley, 
John Meines, Hugh Glazier, William Hunt, Wil- 
liam Gardiner, John Milles, John Daniel, Robert 
Goldson, John Baptist — prebends ; Robert Series, 
Michael Drune, Lancelot Ridley, John Scory, Ed- 
mund Shether, and Thomas Brooke — preachers. 

1545 — On the 16th of October, a commission 
of array was issued for raising 400 able men, 
when this town was required to furnish four arch^ 
ers and six billmen. 

1551 — On the 25th of May, Croydon and its 
neighbouring villages experienced a shock from 
an earthquake J. 

1552 — On the 10th of June, Alexander Bar- 
clay, or De Barklay, D.D., author of " The Gret 

• Fox. Vol. III. p. 1927. f Strype's Life of Cranmer, p. 108. 

% Bishop of Hereford's Annals. 



22 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Shyppe of Fooles of this Worlde," "Myrrour of 
Good Maners*," &c, was buried heref. This 
elegant writer is supposed to have been a native 
of Scotland. In 1495, he entered himself of Oriel 
College, Oxford, and having distinguished him- 
self by the quickness of his parts, he quitted Eng- 
land for the continent. Upon his return home, 
he was appointed chaplain to the bishop of Wells, 
who made him one of the priests of St. Mary at 
Ottery in Devonshire. He was afterwards a 
monk of the order of St. Benedict — a Francis- 
can, and finally a monk of Ely, upon the disso- 
lution of which monastery, in 1539, he was col- 
lated to the vicarage of St. Matthew, at Wokey, 
Somerset. In February, 1546, being then D.D., 
he was presented to the vicarage of Much-Badew 
or Baddow-Magna, Essex; and, on the 30th April, 
1552, to the rectory of All-hallows, Lombard- 
street, which he did not enjoy above the space of 

* The other works of this writer are — The famous Cronycle of 
the Warre which the Romans had agaynst Jugurth, usurper of the 
kyngdom of Numidy : which cronycle is compyled in Latyn, by the 
renowned Romayn Sallust — Orationes Variae — De Fide Orthodoxa — 
The Castell of Laboure, wherein is rychesse, virtue, and honour : — 
The Figure of our Mother Holy Church oppressed by the French King 
—-Answer to John Skelton, the Poet — The Lives of S. Catherine, S. 
Margaret, and St. Etheldred — The Life of S. George. — De Pronun- 
tiatione Gallica. — The Miseries, or Miserable Lives of Courtiers. 

f Vide Parish Register. Wood (Athen. Oxon. Vol. I., p. 207) 
says he was buried in the church. 



CHRONOLOGY. 23 

six weeks,, dying in this town in the month of 
June the same year. In his Egloges, we find the 
following separate lines relative to this place ; in 
one of which, he informs us of his having resided 
here in early life — 

" And as in Croidon I heard the collier preache." 

" While I in youth in Croidon towne did dwell/' 

" He hath no felowe betwene this and Croidon 
Save the proude plowman Gnatho of Chorlington." 

1567 — Queen Elizabeth visited Archbishop 
Parker at Croydon, where, on the 30th of April, 
she held a council*. 

1573 — On the 4th of July, Queen Elizabeth, 
with all her retinue, came to Croydon palace 
on a visit to the same archbishop; with whom 
she remained seven days previous to her going a 
progress into Kentf. From the following MS. 
presented by the Reverend Dr. Birch to Arch- 
bishop Herring, and now in the library of Lam- 
beth palace, it appears that her majesty intended 
to favour the people of Croydon with her pre- 
sence the year ensuing — if she did not actually 
do so. 



* Council-book in the Duke of Buckingham's library at Stowe. 
f Parker's Antiquit. Brit. ed. Drake, pp. 553, 554. 



24 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

" Lodgins at Croyden, the Busshope of Canterburye's house, be- 
stowed as folio weth, the 19th of Maye, 1574 — 

The Lord Chamberlayne* his old lodginge 

The L Tresurei"f wher he was 

The La Marques J at y e nether end of the great chamber 

The La of Warwick wher she was 

The Erie of Lecester § wher he was 

The Lord Admyrall || at y e nether end of ye great chamber 

The La Howard wher she was 

The Lo of Honsdane wher he was 

Mr. Secretarye Walsingham wher Mr. Smyth If was 

The La Stafforde wher she was 

Mr. Henedge** wher he was 

Mrs. Drewreye wher y e La Sydney was 

Ladis and gentyl women of y e Privy e Chamber ther olde 

Mrs. Abbington her olde, and one other small rome added for 

ye table 
The maydes of honnor wher they wer 
Sir George Howard wher he was 
The Capten of y e gardff wher my L of Oxford was 
The gromes of y e Privy e Chamber ther olde 
The esquyeres for the bodye ther olde 
The gentylmen husshers ther olde 
The phesycyas ij chambers 



* Thomas Radclyffe, Earl of Sussex. 

f William Cecil, Lord Burleigh. 

J Elizabeth Paulet, Marchioness of Winchester. 

§ Robert Dudley. 

|| Edward Fynes, Earl of Lincoln. 

*R Afterwards Sir Thomas, and Secretary of State. 

** Afterwards Sir Thomas, Vice Chamberlain. 

ft Christopher Hatton, Esq., afterwards Sir Christopher. 



CHRONOLOGY. 25 

The Quen's robes wher they were 
The grome porter wher he was 
The clark of the Kytchen wher he was 
The wardrobe of bedes. 

For the Quen's Wayghters, I cannot as yet fynde anye convenyent 
romes to place them in, but I will doo the best y* I can to place them 
elsewher, but yf y« please you S r y* I doo remove them. The 
Gromes of the Privye Chamber nor Mr. Drewrye have no other 
waye to ther chambers but to pas thorowe that waye agayne that 
my Lady of Oxford should come. I cannot then tell wher to place 
Mr. Hatton ; and for my La Carewe here is no place with a chyme- 
ney for her, but that she must ley abrode by Mrs. Aparry and the 
rest of ye Pryvy Chambers. For Mrs. Shelton here is no romes 
with chymeneys ; I shall staye one chamber without for her. Here 
is as mutche as I have any wayes able to doo in this house. From 
Croyden this present Wensday mornyinge, your Honnors al wayes 
most bowden S. Bowyer." 

1577— On the 17th of April, Sir Richard 
Gurney, the celebrated Lord Mayor of Lon- 
don, was born in this town*. This patriotic ci- 
tizen was, for his obstinate devotion to royalty, 
deprived of his mayoralty, rendered incapable of 
holding any public office in the kingdom, fined 
5,000£., and imprisoned during the pleasure of 
both houses of Parliament in the Tower, where 
he remained till within a month of his death, a 
term of seven years. Sir Richard, who was creat- 
ed a baronet by Charles I., died October 6th, 
1647, having suffered in his estate to the extent 

* Lloyd's Memoirs, pp. 625, 626. 



26 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

of 30,000/. He was one of the trustees nomi- 
nated by Henry Smith, Esq., for the management 
of his large property left to this and other towns 
in the county. 

1584— On the 17th of July, Archbishop Whit- 
gift issued a commission to Samuel Finch, vicar 
of Croydon, to claim, receive, and examine all 
clerks sued, indicted, or convicted before any jus- 
tice, or upon any felonies, within Croydon ; and 
to require such clerks to be received and admit- 
ted to the benefits and privileges of the clergy*. 
A like commission was issued by the same arch- 
bishop to Finch and Hammond, 20th June, 

1588 f. 

1600— On the 14th of August, Queen Eliza- 
beth visited Archbishop Whitgift at Croydon J. 

1651 — Dr. Fuller, speaking of the black as- 
sizes at Oxford in 1577, adds: — "The like chan- 
ced some four years since at Croydon in Surrey, 
where a great depopulation happened at the as- 
sizes of persons of quality, and the two judges, Ba- 
ron Yates and Baron Rigby, getting their banes 
there, died a few days after §." The reason of my 
recording this under 1651 is, that in that year the 

* Vide Appendix. f Reg. Whitgift. 

X Sydney State Papers, Vol. II. p. 210. Letter from Rowland 
Whyte, Esq., to Sir R. Sydney. 

§ Fuller's Church History of Britain, 1656, Book 9. 



CHRONOLOGY. 27 

battle of Worcester was fought, when the Earl of 
Derby, Sir T. Featherstone, and Colonel Benboe, 
there taken prisoners, were tried, condemned, and 
executed. In the same year, Colonels Andrews 
and Slingsby; and Love, Gibbons, and many 
others, were also executed for plotting against 
the republic. 

1670 — On the 1st of June, Nathaniel Hardy, 
D.D., dean of Rochester, died in this town*. 
This divine, whose writings consist exclusively of 
sermons, was born in London, 14th September, 
1618. In 1632, he became a commoner of 
Magdalen Hall, from whence he entered him- 
self of Hart Hall, where he graduated as M.A., 
in 1638, and in the year following was admitted 
into holy orders. Repairing to London, he be- 
came " insnared" (to use the words of Wood) 
"with the fair pretences of the Presbyterian 
party ;" but at the treaty of Uxbridge, where he 
was present, Dr. Hammond so convinced him of 
his error, that on his return to town he delivered 
a recantation sermon. In 1660, he went with 
the commissioners to the Hague to invite his 
Majesty to return and take possession of the go- 
vernment; on whose restoration he was collated 

* Bliss' Wood's Athen. Oxon. Vol. III. p. 899. 



28 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

to the vicarage of St. Martin in the Fields, be- 
ing at that time D.D.; he was afterwards ordain- 
ed archdeacon of Lewes ; and on the 10th Decem- 
ber, 1660, dean of Rochester. He was also rec^ 
tor of Henley, Oxon. During the common- 
wealth, he officiated as minister of St. Dionyse, 
Back-church, London. " At length," says the 
author above quoted, "this active and forward 
man, who had little or no character among the 
true loyalists, especially that part of the clergy 
who had suffered in the times of usurpation, giv- 
ing way to fate in his house at Croydon in Sur- 
rey, on the first day of June, in sixteen hundred 
and seventy, was buried on the 9th day of the 
same month in the chancel of St. Martin's church 
in the Fields." 

1687— On the 29th of April, Sir Christopher 
Hatton was appointed Lord Chancellor " at Croy- 
don in the Archbishop of Canterburie's house, 
where he received the great seale in the gallery 
there*." 

1728 — On the 12th of May, so violent a storm 
of hail and rain, with thunder and lightning, fell 
at Croydon, as to strike the hail-stones, which 
were from eight to ten inches round, some inches 

* Stowe's Annals, p. 742. 






CHRONOLOGY. 29 

into the earth. The cattle were forced into 
ditches and drowned, the glass windows facing 
the storm were shattered, and other great da- 
mage done. 

1744 — Much damage was done by lightning 
in and near Croydon. 



30 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



CHAPTER III. 



Jftanorg anD ^atfc. 



On the inclosure in 1797, claims were made and 
allowed for the following manors: — 

1 Croydon*, by the Archbishop of Canter buryf. 

2 The Rectory J. by Robert Harris, Esq. 

3 Waddon, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. 

4 Whitehorse, by John Cator, Esq. 

5 Norbury, by Richard Carew, Esq. 

6 Haling, by William Parker Hammond, Esq. 

7 Croham, by the Warden and Poor of Whit- 

gift's Hospital. 



Waddon, 

Anciently styled Woddens, is a considerable 
manor lying about half a mile from the town 
on the road to Beddington, and contains seve- 
ral gentlemen's seats, a large water-mill men- 

* For an account of this manor and its customs, vide ante, p. 8, 

f Dr. John Moore. 

J An account of this manor will be found in Chapter VII. 



MANORS AND PARK. 31 

tioned in Domesday book and belonging to the 
archbishop, and many respectable houses. In 
1127, this manor was given by Henry I. to 
the monks of Bermondsey*. "Whether" says 
Salmon " this was the whole manor is a ques- 
tion, because there appears a confirming charter 
of Henry II., of half the manor of Wedone, 
the gift of Roger de Thebovill to the Abbey 
of Beccf." The convent of St. Saviour's trans- 
ferred it, in 1390, to Archbishop Courtney, in 
exchange for the appropriation of the church of 
Croydon, the said manor to be exempted from all 
tithes arising and becoming due to the said rec- 
tory in future ; from which time it has been an- 
nexed to the see of Canterbury. In 1092, one 
Winebald de Baalum gave three and a half vir- 
gates in Widon to the Abbey of Bermondsey 'J ; 
and Alfred, a duke in the reign of King Alfred, 
gave his son Athelwold ten hides in Whatedune, 
In the time of Henry IV. this manor was taxed 
at 10Ll6s. 5d. In Archbishop Bourchier's time, 
it was valued at Si. 1 2* § ; and in that of Arch-; 
bishop Parker, at 22/. 6s. 8d\\. 

A court baron is annually held here in Easter 
week. 

* Mon. Ang. Vol. I. p. 639, 642. 

f Antiquities of Surrey, p. 42. 

% Mon. Ang. Vol. I. p. 639. 

§ Cart. Miscell. Lamb. MS. Lib. b. 13, No. 14. 

11 Lamb. MS. Lib! No. 1142. 



32 



HISTORY OF CROYDON, 




Whitehorse. 

This manor, also called Bunchesham, and 
Bencham, is situated about a mile and a half north 
from the town, on the road to Norwood. The 
mansion appears to have been built in the reign 
of Henry VIII*. Thomas de Bunchesham was 
reeve of Croydon sometime before 1313 f. Peter 
Chaceport had a grant of free warren on this es- 
tate in the reign of Henry III. J, as had Richard 
de Gravesend, Bishop of London, in the reign of 



* There is an oral tradition that James I. frequently lodged at 
Whitehorse when attending the races at Croydon, 
f Rot. Lacerat. temp. Ed. H. J Cart. 37 Hen; III. m. 15. 



MANORS AND PARK. 33 

Edward I.*, Stephen de Gravesend, bishop of 
London, died in the reign of Edward III., hold- 
ing this manor of the manor of Croydon, for the 
service of twenty-one shillings per annum, with 
suit of court to the Archbishop at Croydon, from 
three weeks to three weeks. There was then a 
capital messuage of no value beyond reprises ; 
200 acres of arable land worth 58s. 4d.per annum, 
of which 100 was valued at 4?d., the other 3d. an 
acre; the pasture of 8 acres of wood 12d.; the 
pannage when it happens, communibus annis, 
l%d.\ the underwood, 4s. ; 8 acres of meadow 
land, 8^ ; 20 acres of pasture, 3s. 4d. ; rents of 
assize as well from free tenants as from natives, 
70*. ; at Christmas, 24 hens and 1 cock, 4*. ; at 
the same time, 6 ploughshares, 4s. ; pleas and per- 
quisites of Courts, 3s 4f/. It was then found that 
the reversion belonged to Hugh de Nevill by fine 
levied in the King's court f. It was next in the 
possession of the CherburysJ, afterwards of the 
Chiritons §, one of whom alienated it to Walter 
Whitehorse, the king's shield-bearer, who also ob- 
tained a grant of free warren ||. Arnold Holker 
possessed the manor in the reign of Henry IV., 
and had a confirmation in fee of free warren ^j; 

* Cart. 27 Ed. I. n. 6. f E sch. 12 Ed. III. n. 34. 

% Cart. 29 Ed. III. m. 9. § CI. 41 Ed. III. m. 6. 

|| Pat 43 Ed. III. H Pat. 7 Hen. IV. pt. 2, m. 36. 

D 



34 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

and in the reign of Henry VI., it was the pro- 
perty of Edmund Brudenell, who had a further 
confirmation of free warren *. In the 6 Henry 
VIII., Sir Robert Morton, Knt., nephew of Rich- 
ard Morton, Bishop of Worcester, and grand ne- 
phew of Cardinal Morton, died seised of this ma- 
nor*; and in the 9th year of the same reign, it 
was in the possession of John Morton, Esq,, his 
half brother; from whom it descended to his ne- 
phew William; from him to his son William, who 
held it in 1566 J, and whose grandson Thomas, 
dying in 1678, left five daughters, amongst whom 
this estate was divided. Four of the five partitions 
were purchased by John Barrett, Esq., in 1712; 
the fifth, by his grandson in 1787, who sold the 
whole to John Cator, Esq., M.P. ; whose nephew, 
John Cator, Esq., sold it to John Davidson 
Smith, Esq., the present possessor. 

In 1719, a gold coin of the Emperor Domi- 
tian was found in this marlor, and lately coins of 
Laelius Caesar, and Titus Vespasian, with several 
others, all in good preservation. 

No courts are held for this manor. 

On this estate, a saline spring, long resorted to 
by the poor of its immediate neighbourhood on ac- 
count of its medicinal properties, has lately been 

* Pat. 10 Hen. VI. pt. 2, m. 6. 

f Cole's Esch. Harl. MS. No. 576. 

\ Herald's Visitation of Surrey, 1623, Harl. MS. No. 1397. 



MANORS AND PARK. 35 

brought into public notice as the " Beulah Spa." 
To its spirited proprietor, the inhabitants of the 
metropolis and its southern environs are greatly 
indebted. The grounds, which extend over 
twenty-five acres, and are entered by an elegant 
lodge, have been tastefully laid out under the di- 
rection of that accomplished architect, Decimus 
Burton. The picturesque character of the place, 
its rustic edifices, its rides, and its promenades, 
render it a most pleasing resort, not only for 
the invalid, but also for those who seek recreation 
and amusement. 



Croham. 

This manor, called also Cronham and Cran- 
ham, consists of a messuage and farm; it ex- 
tends over Cromehurst, and is situate about a 
mile south east of the town; it receives quit- 
rents from several houses and lands in the town 
of Croydon, and forms part of the endowment 
of the hospital of the Holy Trinity. In 1368, 
one Chiriton alienated the manor to Walter 
Whitehorse*, the king's shield-bearer. It ap- 
pears, however, to have reverted to its former 
possessor,' as Edward III. in the 46th year of 
his reign, seized the manor, with other lands 

* Ch. 41 Ed. III. m. 6. 
D2 



38 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

then belonging to Walter Chiriton, for a debt of 
3,000/. due to the crown, and granted it to John 
de Wesenham; but Richard II. restored it to 
William, son of the above Walter Chiriton. In 
the reign of Henry IV. it was again in the pos- 
session of the crown, when William Oliver was 
appointed keeper of the same*. By the court 
rolls of the manor, in the time of Henry VII., it 
appears to have been then the property of Lady 
Peche; and in the reign of Henry VIII., it was 
held by Sir John Danett, Knt., in right of his wife 
Anne, daughter and heir of Thomas Elmerugge, 
otherwise Elynbrugge, Esq., gentleman porter to 
Cardinal Morton. It afterwards became the pro- 
perty of Sir Olliphe Leigh, Knt., of Addington ; 
who sold it to Archbishop Whitgift. 

Courts are sometimes held for this manor, 
which is partly in the parish of Sandersted. 



Norbury. 

The manor of Norbury, called also Northbo- 
rough, lies on the west side of the London road, 
and extends over that side of Thornton Heath. 
Several houses and lands in Croydon pay quit- 
rents to it. In the 48 Edward III., Nicholas 
Carewf of Beddington, keeper of the privy 

* Fin. 1 Hen. IV. m. 8. f Cart. 48 Ed. III. n. 10. 



MANORS AND PARK. 37 

seal, obtained a grant of free-warren on all 
his lands at Croydon. He died 17th August, 
1391, seised of this manor, then consisting 
of a capital messuage, 100 acres of arable 
land, 300 acres of pasture, 10 acres of mea- 
dow, and 20 acres of great wood, lying in 
common, rents of assize 30s. He left Nicholas, 
his son and heir *, who died seised of the manor 
33 Henry VI. f; whose son Nicholas also died 
seised of it, 6 Edward IVJ. On the execution 
and attainder of Sir Nicholas Carew, K.G., Hen- 
ry VIII. seized it for his own use, and annex- 
ed it to his newly created honor of Hampton 
Court; and Edward VI., in the first year of his 
reign, granted it, with the meadow called Pyrle- 
mead in Croydon, to the Archbishop of Canterbu- 
ry, in performance of an agreement of his late fa- 
ther. In this same year, Sir Francis Carew, Knt. 
obtained a reversal of his father's attainder ; but 
it does not appear that he was in possession of 
this manor till the reign of Mary; for, in the 6 
Edward VI., 18th July, that king granted it, 
with the forfeited estate of Sir Nicholas, to Tho- 
mas, Lord Darcie, of Chiche, in exchange for 
other lands §. Queen Mary, in the second year 
of her reign, 14th July, (having, on the 20th No- 

* Esch. 14 R. II. n. 10. f Esch. 6 Ed. VI. n. 22. 

X Esch. 6 Ed. VI. n, 40. § Pat. 6 Ed. VI. p. 9. 



38 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

vember, the preceding year, obtained a reconvey- 
ance from Lord Darcie of the forfeited lands of 
Sir Nicholas), re-granted to Sir Francis Carew 
his father's estates; when Lord Darcie alienated 
this manor to him, 2nd January, 1 556. From Sir 
Francis it has descended, with the Beddington 
estate, to its present possessor — Admiral Sir Ben- 
jamin Hallowell Carew, G.C.B., &c. 



Haling*. 

The manor of Haling is situate at the extre- 
mity of the town, and comprises a park and man- 
sion. Towards the close of the fifteenth century, 
it was in the possession of Thomas Warham, 
Esq., who was one of the twelve principal inha- 
bitants presenting to the chauntry of St. Mary in 
1458 f, and again in 1476 J. In his will, dated 3rd 

* "Inge in nominibus locorum designat pratum, a Sax. inj, 
(Vide Regulae Generates, de Nominibus Locorum, ad finem Chron. 
Sax.) Sanctus in Saxon is halig, and from thence is derived the 
Old English word All Hallows, for All Saints, and therefore it is not 
unlikely that halig may mean the Holy Meadow, especially as it is 
not very far from a place called Woddens, in the map of Surrey 
(lately published by Bowen), which might induce a conjecture that 
here formerly was some idol of Woden (whence our Wednesday) 
adored in that place by the Old Pagan Saxons." Ducarel, p. 73. 

f Reg. Bourchier, fol. 74 a. 

X Ibid. 113 b. 



MANORS AND PARK. 39 

September, 1478, and preserved in the chapter- 
house at Westminster, he directs his body to be 
buried in the parish church of St. John the Bap- 
tist of Croydon, in the chapel of St. Nicholas, 
before the image of our Lady of Pite. He gives 
legacies for masses, &c, with a distribution of 
torches used at his month's mind, amongst differ- 
ent churches. He also gives in lead, for cover- 
ing the north aisle of the church of Croydon, four 
marks. By other papers, also in the chapter- 
house, we find that he held the manor of the 
archbishop by the rent of 21s. O^cl. ; that the free 
rents and quit-rents paid to the said manor 
amounted to 12s. Sd. ; that the clear yearly value 
amounts to 35/. 16s. 10^d.; — the house not ac- 
counted for — and that he had woods there, which, 
within ten years, would be worth 400 marks per 
annum. 

"It is likely" says Bray*, "that he was father 
of William Warham, of whose lands of the manors 
of Halyng and Selerste, and of his lands in the 
towns of Croydon, Whaddon, and Mycham, there 
is an account amongst the above papers :" speak- 
ing of whom, he further says, " This William is 
probably the same as was appointed archdeacon 
of Canterbury in 1504, and held other valuable 

* Manning & Bray's Surrey, Vol. II. p. 542. 



40 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

church-preferments ; all which he resigned on the 
death of Archbishop Warham." The pedigree of 
the Warham family runs thus: — 

Robert Warham, of Hampshire— Elizabeth 
William Robert Nicholas — Hugo John 

Archbishop of 
Canterbury. 



William Jane Joanna Sir George Anna Elizabeth 

Archdeacon of 
Canterbury. 



In these papers, it is said, that the manor-place 
of Halyng, with two orchards, two gardens, a 
culver-house with the bank of conies, were let to 
Sir Nicholas Carew, for 4<0s.per annum; the land 
of the said manor and game of conies (a high 
ridge of gravel soil, consisting of about twelve 
acres) at 12/.; and the farm of Selhurst, 12/. 
How Archdeacon Warham should become pos- 
sessed of this manor, I am unable to tell, as the 
same was given by his uncle, the archbishop, to 
Henry VIII. in exchange for other lands*; per- 
haps we should read Archbishop for Archdeacon 
William Warham, and Thomas Warham as un- 
cle of that prelate. 

Queen Mary granted the manor of Haling to 

* Grants and Exchanges of Lands, Aug. Office. 



MANORS AND PARK. 41 

Sir John Gage, K.G.*, of whom his son, Robert 
Gage, Esq., of Haling, has left the following MS. 
account : — 

"Sir John Gage of Furle, his Preferment at Court. 

" Sir John Gage, Knight, my good father, whose soul God pardon, 
was, after my grandfather's death, warde to the duke of Bucking- 
ham; who, after my father was married to my mother, daughter to 
Sir Richard Guilfourd, Knight, was preferred by him to King Henry 
the Eighth his service ; and after, he being at the wininge of Turwin 
and Turrein, was first made captain of the Castle of Callis ; after he 
was made deputy of the Castle of Owns under my lorde Vawse. 
Shortly after he was sent for home, and presently made knight, of 
the privy counsell, vize chambelaine, and captain of the guard ; within 
few yeares after, for service he did in the borders of Scotland, at 
his returne home was made controwler and chancellour of the Dow- 
chye in one day; within few dayes after he was made counstable of 
the Tower of London ; and the next St. George's feast after, knight 
of the most noble order of the garter. On goinge to wininge of Bul- 
len he was joyned in the commission with Charles duke of SufFolke, 
lorde leauetenant of the king's majesty's campe, for sundry services 
there ; with Sir Anthony Browne, knight, master of the horse and 
generall captayne of the bands of horsemen. After the death of our 
Soveraign lord king Edward the Sixth, at the cominge in of queen 
Mary, he was made her lord chamberlaine. Thus haveing served in 
all these roomes and offices truely and paynefully from the first yeare 
of the reigne of our soveraign lord King Henry the Eighth of famous 
memory, unto the fifth yeare of the reign of our soveraign lady 
queen Mary, untouched with any reproch or unfaithfull service in 
this time, being 77 yeares old, he ended his life, in favour of his 
prince, in his owne house at Furle in Sussex, committing his soul 
there to God's mercifull tuition." 

* Pat. 1 & 2 P. & M. Part 9, Feb. 21. 



A2r HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

To this memoir is appended the following me- 
morandum : — 

"This note was written by Robert Gage, of Halinge, in the 
county of Surry, esq., third son of the aforesaid Sir John Gage 
Knight, and Phillippa Guillfourd his wife; as John Gage of Halinge, 
eldest sonne of the said Robert Gage, my good father, hath divers 
times told me. In witness whereof, I under-written, son of John 
Gage aforesaid of Haleinge, and grand-child of the said Robert Gage, 
have subscribed my name, this 29th of January, 1630. 

Henry Gage." 

He left issue, four sons — Sir Edward, James, 
Robert, of Haling, M.P. for Lewes in 1533, and 
William. Robert died seised of this manor in 
1587. He was father of John and Robert Gage, 
who were probably born here, the former of whom 
succeeded to the estate, and was father of colonel 
Sir Henry Gage, Knt., sometime governor of Ox- 
ford during the civil war, who was killed at Cul- 
lum bridge, near Abingdon, January 7th, 1644. 
The latter, during his travels abroad, having suf- 
fered imprisonment at Brussels for attempting 
the life of one Thomas Morgan, in the church of 
St. Guldula*, returned to England, and entering 
into Babington's conspiracy, was executed at St. 
Giles's in the Fields, 20th September, 1586. It 
does not appear, however, that he actually en- 

* State of the English fugitives under the King of Spain, 1596. 



MANORS AND PARK. 43 

tered into the conspiracy, but rather that he suf- 
fered as an accessory after the fact, in concealing 
the conspirators when their treasonable design 
had been discovered. In a MS. account* of their 
several trials and confessions, we read " that when 
all the matter was discovered, he lent Savage 
(who suffered for the same cause) a horse to flye 
to Croiden, and directed him to one off Savage's 
father's men, who should help him away." Among 
the charges urged against him at the trial, was, 
that he attended Ballard as his man when he went 
into the north to provoke the people to rebellion. 
He was discovered hid in a barn in Carnock's ap- 
parel, having lent his own to Babington. When 
asked on his trial wherefore he fled into the 
woods, he " stoutly and fiercely answered — For 
company f." 

By the attainder of the above John Gage, Esq., 
the manor again reverted to the crown, and 
was leased to Charles, Earl of Nottingham J, the 
celebrated lord admiral, who died here 14th 
December, 1624, as did his brother, Sir Wil- 
liam Howard, in 1600, and whose second son, 
Charles, afterwards third Earl of Nottingham, 
was born here in 1610. 

* Harl. MSS. No. 29, p. 161. 

f Cobbett's State Trials, Vol. I. p. 1154. 

% Pat. 34 Eliz., pt. 9, & Pat. 9 Jac, pt. 23, No. 5. 



44 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

I have not been able to discover the year of 
John Gage's attainder, concerning whom, the 
anonymous epitomizer of his son has the follow- 
ing : — " His father, through his great misfortune, 
was brought into the hard condition of confiscat- 
ing his whole estate, and long imprisonment, 
having only his life left him, and that onely upon 
curtesie, by the king's reprieve after condem- 
nation." Still his son is styled, in the inscription 
on his tomb at Christchurch, Oxford — " Filius 
ac Hceres Johannis Gage de Haling, in Agro 
Suriensi, Armigeri." 

The same writer informs us that Sir Henry vo- 
luntarily demised to his father " the reversion of 
a faire estate at Croyden, called Haling-house, 
waiving all respect of wrong to himselfe, or pre- 
gudice to his wife and children*." 

John Gage, Esq., F.S.A., of Lincoln's Inn, a 
descendant of the above John Gage, informs us 
that " he suffered great hardships for the catholic 
faith, and was long in confinement for harbour- 
ing George Beesley, a missionary priestf ." 

The manor appears again to have become the 
property of the Gage family, one of whom alienat- 

* Alter Britannia Heros, or the life of the Most Honorable 
Knight, Sir Henry Gage, late Governor of Oxford, epitomized. Ox- 
ford, 1645, page 15. 

f Gage's Hist, and Antiq. of Hengrave, 1822, p. 231. 






MANORS AND PARK. 45 

ed it to Christopher Gardner, Esq., in 2 Charles 
I., in whose family it remained till 1707; when 
they conveyed it to Edward Stringer, Esq. ; whose 
widow marrying Parker, Esq., her grand- 
son, William Parker Hammond, Esq., inherited 
it; whose son, W.Parker Hammond, Esq., is the 
present possessor. 

The fine grove in this park contains a great 
number of exotics and evergreens, which have 
been celebrated by the laureate Whitehead, in his 
" Epistle from a Grove in Derbyshire to a Grove 
in Surry," and " Answer." 

Of the " Bourn," which runs by this estate, 
Camden has written the following : — " For the 
torrent that the vulgar affirm to rise here some- 
times, and to presage dearth and pestilence, it 
seems hardly worth so much as the mentioning, 
tho' perhaps it may have something of truth 
in it*." 

No Courts are held for this or the last-men- 
tioned manor. 

* Gibson's Camden's " Britannia," 1695 p. 159. 



46 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

The three following manors are now included 
in that of Croydon. 

Palmers (or Tylehurst). 

By an inquisition in 1595, it appears that 
Richard Forth, LL.D., died seised of this es- 
tate*, which is situated on the south skirts of the 
Norwood hills, and comprises about seventy acres ; 
it was afterwards the property of the Newlands ; 
the co-heiresses of which family sold it to Mr. 
Bulkley in 1769f, who disposed of it to Mr. 
Cotes. 

At the time of the inclosure, Mrs. Cotes claim- 
ed and had an allotment for the estate as a 
farm. 



Ham. 

This estate, a farm, situate at the extremity 
of this parish towards Beckenham, was, in the 
2 Philip & Mary, granted by the crown to An- 
tony, Viscount Montague, by the name of " The 
manor of Estham, alias Escheam, juxta Croy- 
don," being then part of the honor of Hampton 
Court. 

* Harl. MSS. No. 756, p. 237. f Home, p. 310. 



manors and park. 47 

Selhurst. 

This estate, situate about two miles from the 
town, on the road to Sydenham, was granted by 
Henry VIII., in 1541, to Archbishop Cranmer*. 



Croydon Park (now Park Hill) 

Was held by the see of Canterbury, till the 
reign of Henry VIII., when Archbishop Cranmer 
exchanged it with that monarch for other lands f; 
but it reverted to the archbishop by another grant 
in the reign of Edward VI. J. In 1326, the keep- 
ing of this park was given by Archbishop Rey- 
nolds to one — — Le Barber § for life. In 1382, 
Sir William Walworth was appointed keeper by 
Archbishop Courtney ||. In 1405, Richard Hem- 
bridge received the same office from Archbishop 
Arundell^f; and in 1441, Archbishop Chichele 
granted it to Adam and Richard Pykman**. In 
the reign of Edward IV., we find its keeping in 

* Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Mus. 4705 ; Ayscough's Cat. 

f Grants of Land and Exchanges, May 4; 31 Hen. VIII., Aug. 
Office. 

X Grants of Land and Exchanges, June 12; 1 Ed. VI., Aug. Of- 
fice. 

§ Reg. Reynolds, fol. 264 b. || Reg. Courtney, fol. 37 a. 

IT Reg. Arundel, fol. 401 a. ** Reg. Chichele, fol. 239 a. 



48 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

the hands of John Lyttyll*, and in the reign of 
Charles I., Francis Lee, gentleman, held the same 
by patent, granted by Archbishop Laud, 25th 
November, 1637f . A Francis Lee, son of Fran- 
cis Lee, gentleman, of Streatham, had a like grant 
from Archbishop Juxon, 20th May, 1663 J. 

In the time of Archbishop Grindall, Sir Fran- 
cis Carew, Knt., and one George Withers, had 
several interests in this park, for redemption of 
which, the said archbishop paid them the sum of 
83l.6s.8d.§. 

On the sale of the palace, it was in contempla- 
tion to erect here a new residence for the arch- 
bishop, but Addington being preferred, an act of 
Parliament was obtained in 1807, for purchasing 
the mansion and estate of Alderman Tricothick ; 
on the site of which arose the present archi epis- 
copal seat. 

* Excerpta ex computis Ministrorum. Vide Appendix, 
f Cart. Miscel., Vol. XIII. No. 16. 
X Harl. MSS. No.3797, p.27. 
§ Strype's Life of Grindall, p. 286. 



ADDISCOMBE. 49 



CHAPTER IV. 



StoHfatomfa. 



Addiscombe, formerly called Adgecome and Ads- 
comb, but more anciently by its present name, 
is situate about a mile and a half from the town 
on the road to Wickham, and was formerly the 
residence of a family of the name of Heron. 
Thomas Heron, Esq.*, died here in September, 
1518, leaving, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter 
and co-heir of William Bond, Esq., clerk of the 
green cloth, two sons ; William, justice of the 
peace for the county, who died here January 4th, 
1562, and was, with his father, buried in Croydon 
church ; and Sir Nicholas, who also died here, Sept. 
1568, and was buried in the same church. It 
was afterwards the residence of Sir John Tunstall, 
Knt.f , of the ancient family of Tunstall, of Thur- 
land castle, gentleman-usher and esquire to Queen 
Anne, consort of James I., and justice of the 

* Visitation of Surrey, Harl. MSS., No. 1561. f Ibid. No. 1016. 

E 



50 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

peace for the county; whose eldest son Henry, 
then residing at Croydon, was one of the com- 
missioners appointed in 1647, for inquiring into 
the conduct of the clergy of Surrey. We next 
find it the property and residence of Sir Purbeck 
Temple, Knt., of the privy council of Charles II. 
who died here 29th August, 1695, and whose 
widow Sarah, daughter of Robert Draper, Esq., of 
Remmingham, Berks, dying here in Feb. 1700, left 
the estate to her nephew, William Draper, Esq., 
who married Susanna, daughter of the celebrated 
John Evelyn. This gentleman rebuilt the man- 
sion, commencing in June, 1702, and finishing to- 
wards the close of the following year, as we learn 
from the following extracts from the amusing 
Diary of his father-in-law. 

"27 June, 1702 — I went to Wotton with my 
family for the rest of the summer, and my son-in- 
law, Draper, with his family came to stay with 
us, his house at Adscomb being new building*." 

"11 July, 1703 — I went to Adscomb, 16 miles 
from Wotton, to see my son-in-law's new house, 
the outside to the covering being such excellent 
brick-work, cased with Portland stone, with the 
pilasters, windows, and within, that I pronounc'd 
it, in all points of good and solid architecture, to 
be one of the very best gentlemen's houses in 

* Evelyn's Memoirs, ed. Bray, 1819, Vol. II. p. 77. 



ADDISCOMBE. 51 

Surrey, when finished. I returned to Wotton tho' 
weary." * (He was then 83). 

The estate became afterwards the property 
and residence of Charles Clarke, Esq., of Ockley, 
Surrey, through an heiress of the Draper family; 
whose only son Charles died in his father's life- 
time, leaving issue, Charles John, unfortunately 
killed at Paris by the fall of a scaffold at a public 
show, on the celebration of the peace of Amiens ; 
and Anne Millicent Clarke, who marrying Emi- 
lius Henry Delmd, Esq., afterwards Radcliffe, 
master of the stud to George IV. and his present 
Majesty, the estate became the property of 



* Evelyn's Memoirs, Vol. II. p. 80. 

The following three extracts, in which Addiscombe is referred 
to, are also taken from Evelyn's Memoirs — 

"19 July, 1695 — I dined at Sir Purbeck Temple's, neare Croy- 
don ; his lady is aunt to my son-in-law Draper ; the house is exactly 
furnished." (Vol. II. p. 48). 

" 29 August, 1695. — Very cold weather. — Sir Purbeck Temple, 
uncle to my son Draper, died suddenly. A greate funeral at Ads- 
combe. His lady being owne aunt to my son Draper, he hopes for 
a good fortune, there being no heir." (Ibid. p. 49.) 

"13 February, 1700 — I was at the funerall of my Lady Temple, 
who was buried at Islington, brought from Adscomb, neare Croydon: 
she left my son-in-law, Draper (her nephew), the mansion-house of 
Adscomb, very nobly and completely furnish 'd, with the estate about 
it, with plate and jewels to the value in all of about 20,000/.; she 
was a very prudent lady, gave many greate legacies, with 500/. to 
the poore of Islington, where her husband, Sir Purbeck Temple, 
was buried, both dying without issue." (Ibid. p. 68.) 

E2 



52 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

that gentleman. Lord Grantham, and the first 
Lord Liverpool, made Addiscombe their place of 
residence, the latter of whom had a lease of the 
estate for life; and Lord Chancellor Talbot is said 
to have resided here. 

In I 809, this estate was purchased of Mr. Delme 
RadclifFe by the Hon. East India Company, for the 
purpose of establishing here their military college, 
previously formed at Woolwich Common, for the 
education of cadets for the engineers and artille- 
ry; which, in 1825, was extended to the reception 
of the whole infantry service. The cadets, whose 
number extends from 120 to 150, are under the in- 
spection of an officer of rank in the Company's ser- 
vice, assisted by an officer of His Majesty's corps 
of engineers or artillery, who examine them pre- 
viously to their obtaining commissions. There are 
fourteen professors and masters : teachers of for- 
tification, artillery, engineering, and military tac* 
tics in general, mathematics, military and other 
drawing, lithography, surveying, the classics, the 
French and oriental languages, chemistry, and 
geology. 

Two public examinations are held annually, at 
which the chairman and deputy chairman of the 
East India Company preside, assisted by some of 
the principal officers- of state, there are two terms 
in the year, one commencing the 1st February 



ADDISCOMBE. 53 

and extending to the 16th June, and the other 
from 1st August to 21st December. The age of 
the candidates for admission must not be under 
14 or exceeding 3 8 years. The terms are 651. 
the first year, and 501. for each of the two suc- 
ceeding years. 

Addiscombe house is supposed to have been 
built after a design of Sir John Vanburgh, and 
the walls and ceilings of the staircase and saloon 
to have been painted by Sir William Thornhill. 
It has since been greatly enlarged by the addition 
of several unconnected buildings. 

On the front is the following inscription in 
Roman capitals. 

NON FACIAM VITIO CULPAVE MINOREM. 



54 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



CHAPTER V. 

Charitable Jngtitutton*. 

Ellis Davy's Alms House. 

This religious foundation is a small unassuming 
structure situate near the church, and was rebuilt 
about sixty years since. It was founded on the 
27th April, 1447, by one Ellis Davy, citizen and 
mercer of London, for the support of seven poor 
people, male and female, including a tutor. He 
endowed the same with 181. per annum, with the 
addition of four cottages situate near it, the 
rents of which were to be applied to its repairs. 

Having obtained letters patent from Henry 
VI., dated 25th December, 1445, together with 
letters patent from Archbishop Stafford, dated 
17th February, 1442, and letters from the Abbot 
and convent of St. Saviour, Bermondsey, dated 
from their Chapter-house, 20th December, 1445, 
the said Ellis Davy founded this alms-house the 
27th of April, 1447 — He appointed the vicar, 
churchwardens, and four of the most worthy 



ELLIS DAVY'S ALMS HOUSE. 55 

householders and parishioners of the town, and 
their successors, governors of the Alms-house, and 
constituted the master and wardens of the Mer- 
cers' Company, for the time being, overseers of 
the same. 

The said Ellis Davy ordained the tutor and 
poor of his Alms-house to attend service daily 
in the church of Croydon, and there to pray 
upon their knees, for the King, in three Pater- 
nosters, three Aves, and a Credo, " with special 
and hartily recommendation" of the said founder 
to God and the Virgin Mary. They were also 
required to say for " the estate of all the sowles 
abovesaid" daily at their convenience, one Ave, 
fifteen Paternosters, and three Credos ; and after 
his death, provided he should be buried at Croy- 
don, they and their successors w T ere required to 
appear daily before his tomb, and there to say 
the psalm " De Profundis," or three Paternosters, 
three Aves, and a Credo. He required that their 
clothes should be " darke and browne of colour, 
and not staring, neither blazing, and of easy price 
cloth, according to their degree." 

These statutes (which are inserted in full in the 
Appendix) becoming antiquated, were revised by 
Archbishop Parker, August 6th, 1566. 

The revenue of this charity is, at the present 
time, 179/. 4s. 2d. per annum. 



56 



HISTORY OF CROYDON. 




Whitgift's Hospital. 

This " memorable and charitable structure/' 
incorporated in the name of the warden and poor 
of the hospital of the Holy Trinity, was founded 
in the reign of Elizabeth, by Archbishop Whit- 
gift, for the maintenance of a warden, schoolmas- 
ter, and twenty-eight men and women, or as 
many more under forty as the revenues would 
admit. The archbishop, having obtained letters 
patent, with licence of mortmain, from the queen, 
dated 22 November, 1596, commenced this build- 
ing on the 14th February, the same year, and 
finished it 29th September, 1599, expending on 



whitgift's hospital. 57 

the whole, 2716/. lis. Id., as appears from the ac- 
counts of the Rev. S. Fynche, vicar of Croydon, ap- 
pointed by the founder to superintend the works*. 

He appointed to the warden a salary of 11/. per 
ann.; and to the schoolmaster, who is also chap- 
lain, a salary of 201. per ann.; and to each poor 
brother and sister, whose respective ages must 
not be under sixty, the sum of 51. per ann. ; be- 
sides wood, corn, and other provisions. 

The members he required to be selected— -first, 
from the household of the archbishop — secondly, 
from the parishes of Croydon and Lambeth — and 
lastly, from such parishes in Kent whose be- 
nefices are annexed to the see. The number of 
the women not to exceed the half of the men, ex- 
clusive of the warden and schoolmaster. 

The schoolmaster, he required to read public 
prayers, morning and evening, in the chapel of the 
Hospital, on all working days except Wednesday 
and Friday in the forenoon, and Saturday in the 
afternoon — and to be proficient in Greek and La- 
tin, as also a good versifier of these languages. 

He ordained the Archbishop of Canterbury for 
the time being governor and visitor of the hospi- 
tal. This trust was delegated by Archbishop 
Laud, 11th August, 1634, to Sir Edmund Scott, 

* Vide " The particular account of the Building of Trinity Hos- 
py tall in Croydon, "Lamb. MS. Lib. No. 275. 



58 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Knt., and Rev. S. Bernard, vicar of Croydon. 
For the articles ministered, vide Appendix, No. 1 5. 

He reserved to himself during life the two 
chambers over the inner gatehouse, and the cham- 
ber over the hall, now occupied by the warden ; 
and here he often entertained his noble friends 
the Ear]s of Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Cum- 
berland, Lord Zouche, the bishop of London, 
"and others of near place about her Majesty." 

Whilst digging the foundations, several skele- 
tons were discovered by the workmen, of which 
Mr. Fynche gives an account in two letters to the 
archbishop. These were in all probability the 
remains of the unfortunate Londoners who fell in 
this town on the 14th May, 1624*. 

On the 10th July, 1599, between the hours of 
eight and twelve, the chapel of the Hospital was 
consecrated by Richard (Bancroft), bishop of 
London, by the name of " The chapel of the 
Holy Trinity ;" in the presence of Antony, bishop 
of Chichester, Thomas Montford, D.D., preacher 
on the occasion, and many others. 

Scarcely, however, had he completed this erec- 
tion, when his enemies, desirous of obtaining a cur- 
tailment of the archiepiscopal income, that they 

* Vide ante, p. 17. In 1814, Mr. Turner, veterinary surgeon, when 
digging a gravel-pit in his paddock opposite the Hospital, discovered 
a number of skeletons, lying about four feet deep from the surface. 



whitgift's hospital. 59 

might feast upon the spoliation, talked much at 
Court of the great wealth accumulated by the pre- 
late under his preferment, and of the overgrown re- 
venue of the see. Upon the receipt of this slander, 
the archbishop immediately drew up a paper, giv- 
ing the true yearly value of the archbishopric, with 
an account of all his purchases since his transla- 
tion. From which paper given by Strype in his 
life of this prelate, we have extracted the follow- 
ing items. 

" These following are for my hospital : — 

" The Checker in Croydon cost 200/. 

"A tenement joining it, cost 30/. 

"Another tenement in Croydon, called Stay- 
Cross, with one acre and a half, cost 80/. 

"Upon these I have builded my hospital, school- 
house, and school-master's house, and therefore 
are not rented. 

"One piece of ground, called Clotmead, in Croy- 
don, cost 14/., rent 20s. 

"The Swan in Croydon, cum pcrtinentiis, 80/., 
rent of this with certain parcels belonging to the 
Checker, is 13/. 6s. 8d. 

One piece of wood land, and some pasture, con- 
taining in the whole 77 acres, in Croydon, cost 
375/., rent 20/. 

" One other piece of wood land and pasture in 
Croydon, cost 410/., rent 23/. 



60 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

" Three other several farms in Croydon cost 
1400/., rent 48/." 

Of the wonderful condescension of this excellent 
prelate to the inmates of his hospital, we are told by 
Izaak Walton, in his life of Hooker, that he visited 
them so often "that he knew their names and dis- 
positions, and was so truly humble, that he called 
them brothers and sisters ; and whenever the queen 
descended to that lowliness to dine with him at 
his palace at Lambeth, which was very often, he 
would usually the next day shew the like lowli- 
ness to his poor brothers and sisters of Croydon, 
and dine with them at his hospital, at which time 
you may believe there was joy at the table*." 

The same author has also recorded a saying of 
Boyse Sisi, ambassador from France at the time 
of the archbishop's death — " The bishop" said 
the Frenchman, "had published many learned 
books; but a free-school to train up youth, and 
an hospital to lodge and maintain aged and poor 
people, were the best evidence of christian learn- 
ing that a bishop could leave to posterity f ." 

Sir George Paul also mentions the many visits 
of the pious founder to the poor of his hospital. 

The revenue, originally only 185/. 4s. 2d. per 
annum, has been greatly increased by fines upon 
the renewal of leases, chiefly through the care 

* Walton's lives, Major's ed. p. 208. f Ibid. 






whitgift's hospital. 61 

and attention of the archbishops, Seeker and 
Moore ; which, with sundry benefactions, amount- 
ed together, in 1817, to 481/. 9*. 4|^.; and has 
increased at the present time to 2,007/. 19s. 4J. 
per annum. There are now thirty-four brothers 
and sisters supported by this charity. 

The hospital is a handsome brick edifice, of the 
Elizabethan style of architecture, in the form of 
a quadrangle, and situate at the entrance of the 
town, having, over the entrance, the arms of the 
see of Canterbury, surmounting the following in- 
scription : — 

QVI DAT PAVPERI NON INDIGEBIT. 

In the chapel, a small unassuming structure, 
forming the south-east angle, are preserved the 
following, among other items: — 

* For the following note, I am indebted to the Rev. J. C. Bisset, 
Chaplain of the Hospital. 

By far the chief partjof the revenue of the Hospital is derived from 
the original endowment made by its pious Founder, Archbishop 
Whitgift, in land and tenements in Croydon, and its neighbourhood. 
Some estates were afterwards bestowed by other benefactors, who 
completed the annual income the archbishop designed for the poor 
in his hospital, and thus contributed to advance its permanent inter- 
ests. For a long series of years, it was usual for the Hospital to re- 
ceive a reserved rent for the lands and tenements, on leases renewa- 
ble every seventh year, upon payment of a fine : that custom has 
been departed from, and a fixed rent substituted in lieu of all fines. 
The result of which measure is, that the present rental of the Hospi- 
tal may be stated as amounting to the sum of 2,007Z. 19s. id. a-year. 



62 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

A fine portrait of the founder painted on board, 
and inscribed above : — 

Feci quod potui ; potui quod, Christe, dedisti : 
Improba, fac melius, si potes, Invidia. 

beneath : — 

Has Triadi Sanctse primo qui struxerat aedes, 
Illius in veram Praesulis effigiem. 

A portrait of a lady in a ruff, inscribed, A.D. 
1616. 

A frame containing the following : — 

TO THE HAPPIE MEMORIE OF Y E MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, 

DOCTOR JOHN WHITGUIFT, 

LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURIE, ETC., 

HIS GRACE'S SOMETIME FAITHFULL LOVING SERVANT 

& UNWORTHIE GENT. USHER, J.W., CONSECRATS 

YS TESTIMONIE OF HIS ANCIENT 

DUTY. 

OBIIT 29 FEB., 1603. 

Pure Saints by heav'n refyn'd from earthlie drosse, 

You duelie can esteeme your new increase : 
But our soules' eyes are dymme, to see the losse, 

Great Prelate, wee sustayne by thy decease. 

Wee never could esteeme thee as we ought, 
Although the best men did thee best esteeme ; 

For hardlie can you fynde a mortall thought, 
That of so great worth worthilie can deeme. 



whitgift's hospital. 63 

This straight sound Cedar, new cut from y e Stemme, 

As yet is scarselie myst in Libanus ; 
This, richer than the wise King's richest gemme, 

New lost, as yet is scarselie myst of us. 

But tymes to come, and our deserved want, 
I feare, will teache us more and more to prize 

This match! esse Pearle, this fairest knotlesse Plant, 
On whose top Vertue sitting touch't the Skyes, 

Presuming Horace, Ovid confident, 

Proudlie foretold their Bookes' Eternities : 
But if my Muse were like my Argument, 

Theis lynes would outlive both their memories. 

For their best Maister-Peeees doe contayne 

But Pictures of false Gods, and man's true faults ; 

Whereas, in my Verse ever should remayne 

A true Saint's praise whose worth fills Heaven's great Vaults. 

Shyne bright in y e triumphant Churche, faire Soule, 

That in the Militant has shyn'd so longe : 
Let rarest witts thy great deserts enrolle, 

I can but sing thee in a mournefull Songe. 
And wish, that with a Sea of teares, my Verse 
Could make an Island of thy honor'd Herse. 

L'Envoy. 

Candish in prose sett Cardinal Wolsey forth, 
Who serv'd him in that place I serv'd this lord : 

He had his faults to write of and his worth, 
Nothing in this man was to be abhorr'd. 

Therefore his theme was larger much than mine ; 

But, Candish, my theme better is than thine. 



Persius. * 



Helicondasq., pallidamq. Pirenen 
Illis remitto, quorum imagines lambunt 
Hederae sequaces. Ipse semipaganus 
Ad sacra Vatum carmen affero nostrum. 

[Prolog. 5.] 



64 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Another frame containing the following : — 

ELEGIA 

Continens brevissimam descriptionem miserarium et calamitatum 
Generis humani quodq. sit subjectu. morti, etquae tandem ei consolatio. 

Vita quid est hominis, nisi plena malorum 

Principio, medio, fine do] en da suo. 
Cura, labor, morbus, cui, mentem, membra, dolorem, 

Multa, frequens, , alit. 

Et nihil est aliud, Caesar, nisi pulvis et umbra, 

Umbra brevis, velox amnis, et aura levis. 
Prseterit aura levis, velox cito labitur amnis, 

Umbra brevis fugitat, pulvis inanis abit. 
Sic hominis properans aevum fugientibus horis 

Labitur, et pluma ceu volitante volat: 
Sic homines miseri, quasvis mutamur in horas, 

Et centum vicibus subdita turba sumus. 
Ante potes frondes silvarum, germina ruris, 

Et nitidi Stellas dinumerare Poli : 
Omnia quam numeris valeas includere justis 

Ipse quidem, fragilis massa, laboret homo. 
Omnibus incumbit quoddam grave pondus, et omnis 

Vita malis plena est, plena dolore simul. 
Et quicquid spirat, vel in aere, in sequore, terra, 

Nil adeo fragile est sicut inermis homo. 
Die mihi de cunctis hominem mortalibus unum, 

Cui non sit sortis certa querela suae : 
Sit licet ille status felicis, et ordinis ampli, 

Sive sit exiguse conditionis homo ; 
Sive puer timidus, pueros incommoda mille, 

Mille premunt noxae, crimina mille premunt; 
Seu fueris juvenis, juvenum quoque tempora dura, 

Hie gravis est sudor, perpetuusque labor ; 
Sive senex tremulus, non ipsa beata senectus, 

Fceta sed est morbis, tristitiaque gravis. 



whitgift's hospital. 65 

Fac jam sis dives f fortuna est lubrica certe, 

Te nunc, nunc alium, nunc aliumq. petit; 
Fac sis pauper homo, nescis, O dives amice, 

Pauperies secum quod grave portet onus : 
Junge tibi uxorem, quae non miseranda vorabis, 

Fert tibi libertas vendita triste jugum ; 
At maneas caelebs, miser est homo solus et orbus, 

Auxilio dulci, subsidioq. caret; 
Suscipe discipuli partes parviq. scholaris, 

Suscipies natibus multa ferenda tuis; 
Vel doceas doctor mitis pia dogmata Christi, 

O gravis haec quantum functio mentis erit; 
Sume Senatoris porro tibi munus agendum, 

Turn pariter curse sunt tibi mille datae; 
Fungeris officio regis, non taedia desunt, 

Discruciatq. animum plurima cura tuum. 
Quicquid agas tandem, nihil est, nihil undiq. tutum 

Sis quodcunq. velis, sunt tua damna tibi. 
Ut referam verbo, vita est sentina malorum, 

Cumq. dolore labor, cumq. labore dolor. 
Insuper inconstans hominum est et lubrica vita 

Ut cito, quae speres posse man ere, ruant. 
Qui modo sanus erat, nunc lecto aegrotus adhaeret, 

Pauper et est subito, qui modo dives erat. 
Cumq. homo proponit, disponunt invida fata, 

Cumq. homo vult illic ire, redire jubent. 
Cumq. videtur homo pulchram sibi ducere vitam, 

Mors venit et celeres injicit ipsa manus. 
Quiq. hodie vivit curae securus inertis, 

Verbaq. cum sociis ludet arnica suis, 
Cras moritur, pharetra tristem portatur ad urnam, 

Ut sua det gelido membra tegenda solo : 
Tales nosq. sumus, talis nos exitus omnes, 

Quotquot in hoc vasto vivimus orbe, manet. 
Non multos vixisse dies et saecla juvabit, 

Certa venit tandem funeris hora tibi. 



66 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Ipse licet videas longgevi Nestoris annos, 

Sive tuos Deli, sive Sybilla tuos. 
Nil juvat immotus cunctis stat terminus aevi, 

Et tandem mortis nigra terenda via est, 
Communemq, viam nos ibimus, ibitis, ibunt. 

Hie, is, ille, puer, foemina, virgo, senex, 
Mors etenim pede certa ferox venit omnibus sequa, 

Quiq. relinquetur non erit unus homo. 
Sis ubicunq. velis non evitabile fatum, 

Te sequitur terra, te sequiturq. mari. 
Hie nil juris habet pauper, cum divite juris 

Sive bonus fueris, nil tibi, sive malus. 
Occidet infelix, magno cum Caesare, pastor, 

Et nihil hie quemquam caula vel aula juvat. 
Occidet afflictus, saturo cum divite, pauper, 

Hie nil pauperies divitiaeq. juvant. 
Omnia sic minuit fatum, sic omnia tollit, 

Et simili cunctos sub juga lege trahit. 
Atq. humiles altis, imbelles fortibus sequat, 

Obscuris celebres, supplicibusq. feros. 
Non genus, aut dotes animi, nee respicit annos, 

Nee precibus flecti, nee pietate potest. 
Ilia tamen nobis spes indubitata relicta est, 

Quam decet immota nos retinere fide, 
Quod licet ilia caro, cutis, et qua membra teguntur, 

In cava, defuncto corpore, busta cadant. 
Non tamen, in tumulis seterna nocte latebunt 

Ut caro brutorum, non reditura, jacent. 
Sed Deus, ex tumulis, homines educet in auras, 

Et rursus veteri vestiet ossa cute. 
Id spondent nobis sanctorum carmina vatum, 

Et verbum verum, maxime Christe, tuum ; 
Id rata verba sonant, his nos quoq. credere fas est, 

Sydera si cupimus scandere celsa Poli. 

SOLI DEO GLORIA. 



whitgift's hospital. 67 

On the outside, above the window of the chapel, 
in which is the founder's arms, is the following in- 
scription on a Portland stone: — 

EBORACENCIS* 

HANC FENESTRAM 

FIERI FECIT, 

1597. 

In the hall, which is situate at the north side 
of the inner porch, and where the poor brethren 
dine, is a folio bible, in black letter, with wooden 
covers mounted with brass, having this inscrip- 
tion : — 

Pauperibus Hospitalis in villa de Croydon 
Sacrosanctam Trinitatem colentibus 

Hoc Verbum Vitse donavit 

ABRAHAMUS HARTWELL* 

Reverendissimi Fundatoris 

Humilimus Servulus, 

1599. 



* Probably Michael Murgatroid, the founder's secretary, who is 
designated " Eboracencis" in his epitaph, vide post, p. 173. 

f Abraham Hartwell, M.A., was rector of Stanwich, Northampton- 
shire ; he was secretary to Archbishop Whitgift, and author of" Regina 
Literata, &c. 1565." " A Report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of 
Africa; and of the countries that border round about the same," 
translated from the Italian of Philippo Pigafetta, 1597; " A true dis- 
course upon the matter of Martha Brossier, of Romorantin, pretend- 
ed to be possessed by a devill," translated from the French, 1599; 
and " The Ottoman Description of the Empire and Power of Maho- 
met," translated from the Italian of Lazaro Soranzo, 1603. 



68 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Under the inscription is this memorandum: — 

Repaired at the expense 

of 

Thomas Lett, esq. 

of Lambeth, 

in the year mdcccxiii. 

There were also formerly three antique wooden 
goblets, one of which, holding about three pints, 
had the following quaint inscription: — 

What, Sirrah ! hold thy pease, 
Thirste satisfied, cease. 

Above the outer gate, in an upper room, called 
the treasury, are preserved the several papers re- 
lating to the Hospital, as purchase-deeds, leases, 
licences, &c. ; of which the Queen's original grant 
to the founder and the archbishop's deed of en- 
dowment are singularly beautiful. 

Over the inner gate is this inscription: — 

RESTORED 181 7 J FRANCIS WALTERS, WARDEN. 

Adjoining the hospital are the school house and 
the master's residence. Although the founder has 
expressly said, that " the howse which I have 
builded for the sayde schoole howse, and also 
the howse which I have buylded for the schoole- 
master, shal be for ever imployde to that use 
onlye, and to no other;" yet the former is now 



whitgift's hospital. 69 

appropriated to the children of the national 
school. The latter is still devoted to its original 
purpose, being the residence of the chaplain. 

" This memorable and charitable structure of 
brick and stone/' says Strype*, "one of the most 
notable monuments founded in these times, for a 
harbour and subsistence for the poor, together 
with a fair school house for the increase of litera- 
ture, and a large dwelling for the schoolmaster, 
the archbishop had the happiness, through God's 
favourable assistance, to build and perfect in his 
own life-time. And the reason why he chose to 
do it himself while he was alive, was, as Mr. Stowe 
the historian had heard from his own mouth, be- 
cause he would not be to his executors a cause 
of their damnation, remembering the good advice 
that an ancient father (S. Gregory) had left writ- 
ten to all posterity, ( Tutior est via, ut bonum, 
quod quisquis post mortem sperat agi per alios, 
agat, dum vivat ipse, per se;' i. e. The good that 
any one hopeth will be done by others after he is 
dead, that he do it himself while he is alive, is 
much the safer way." 

* Life of Whitgift, 1718, p. 533. 



70 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

CHAPLAINS OF ARCHBISHOP WHITGIFT's HOSPITAL, FROM 
THE FOUNDATION. 

1600 Ambrose Br ydges. 

1601 John Ireland. 

1606 Robert Davies, or Daires, who was de- 
prived. 

1616 William Nicolson. 

1629 John Webbe. 

1651 Thomas Gray. 

1668 William Crowe, of Caius Coll., where he 
matriculated December 14th, 1632; he was born 
in Suffolk, and was author of a catalogue of the 
English writers of the Old and New Testament, 
1659, which has been frequently printed. He 
hanged himself about the end of 1674*. 

1675 John Shepherd f. 

* Wood's Athen. Oxon. Vol. II. p. 344. 

•f* Under this gentleman, John Oldham the poet was three years an 
usher. John Oldham was born August 9th, 1653, at Shipton near 
Tedbury, Gloucestershire, and admitted of Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 
1670, when he graduated B.A. 1674, and about 1675, became usher 
to the free-school at Croydon. Here he wrote his satire on the Je- 
suits, which getting abroad, he was honoured with a visit by the 
Earls of Rochester and Dorset, Sir Charles Sedly, and other persons 
of wit and distinction. In 1678, Oldham quitted Croydon, and en- 
tered the family of Sir William Thurland, as tutor to his two grand- 
sons; and, in 1681, became tutor to the son of Sir William Hickes. 
He next applied himself to physic, which he soon relinquished for 
poetry ; and repairing to London, became the associate of his contem- 



whitgift's hospital. 71 

1681 John Caesar, M.A., afterwards vicar of 
Croydon. 

1711 Henry Mills, M.A., author of " An Essay 
on Generosity and Greatness of Spirit/' was of 
Trinity Coll. Oxford, where he graduated M.A., 
25th June, 1698. He was rector of Dinder, and 
prebendary of Wells, and served the cure of Pil- 
ton with the chapelry of North Wooton, master 
of the school of Wells, and vicar of Mestham. 
Mr. Mills was one of the opponents of Bishop 
Hoadly, in the Bangorian controversy ; for which 
cause he published a pamphlet, intituled " A full 
Answer to Mr. Pillonniere's * reply to Dr. Snape, 
and to the Bishop of Bangor's Preface, so far as it 
relates to Mr. Mills ; in which the Evidences given 
to Dr. Snape are justified, the Bishop of Bangor's 
Objections answered, Mr. Pillonniere's pretended 
Facts disproved, and base Forgery detected ; as 
likewise the true Reasons of such malicious Pro- 
ceedings against Mr. Mills. The whole supported 



porary wits, and a votary of Bacchus. He died of the small-pox, 
December 9th, 1683, at the seat of his patron the Earl of Kingston, 
at Holme-pierepoint. Dryden, with whom he was acquinted, and 
who terms him the " Marcellus of our tongue" has consecrated a 
beautiful Elegy to his memory. 

* Francis de la Pillonniere, a converted Jesuit in holy orders, had 
been usher to Archbishop Whitgift's school, and was now tutor to 
the family of the bishop. 



72 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

by ample Testimonies of Gentlemen, Clergy, and 
many others. In a letter to the Lord Bishop of 
Bangor, by H. Mills, A.M." He died April 12th, 
1742. 

1742 Samuel Stavely. 

1751 John Taylor Lamb. 

1774 James Hodgson, rector of Keston, Kent, 
who resigned. 

1801 John Rose, D.D. # some time under-mas- 
ter of the Merchant Taylors' School, in the com- 
mission of the peace, and rector of St. Martin 
Outwich, Bishopsgate. 

1812 John Collinson Bisset, M.A., vicar of 
Addington, on the resignation of Dr. Rose. 



Archbishop Tenison's School. 

This school, situate at North End, was found- 
ed in the year 1714, by Archbishop Tenison, for 

* In 1812, complaint having been made to Archbishop Sutton, 
of the great mismanagement of Dr. Rose, his grace was pleased to 
institute an inquiry ; when it appeared that he had made the hospital 
his debtor to the amount of 2021. 9s. I0d., when at the same time he 
had appropriated the revenues to his own use. An action by the 
warden and poor was the consequence; and, in November, 1813, the 
sheriff's jury gave a verdict for the plaintiffs, 762/. 15s. Id. Dr. 
Rose resigned his situation in the April following. The proceedings 
have been printed. 






tenison's school. 73 

the education of ten poor boys and the same num- 
ber of girls ; now, on account of sundry benefac- 
tions, increased to fourteen boys and fourteen girls, 
with maintenance for a master and mistress. For 
the endowment of this institution, he purchased 
a farm and lands at Limpsfield, in Surry, of the 
then yearly value of 42/., and bequeathed to it 
by will the sum of 400/., to be laid out in land 
for the enlargement of the said charity. 

The revenues of this institution having greatly 
increased, being now about 130/. per annum, 
arising from land and money in the Funds, and 
the old school house becoming unfit for the pur- 
pose, the present substantial brick building was 
erected in 1792, on a space adjoining the old house, 
which was then let by the trustees. The master 
and mistress have now a joint salary of 50/. per 
annum. Over the door, on a board, is the follow- 
ing inscription : — 

" CHARITY SCHOOL 

founded for 14 poor boys and 14 poor girls, by Thomas Tenison, 
late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, March 25th, 1714. This pre- 
sent school-house was built in 1791 and 1792, with a legacy of 500/., 
bequeathed by Mr. James Jenner, and also 300/. by Mr. William 
Heathfield, of London, and donations by the Rev. John Heathfield of 
Northam, in the county of Hertford, and other charitable persons." 



74 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



CHAPTER VI. 



%$t palace. 



Of the early history of this once sumptuous and 
kingly palace, now prostituted to servile uses, 
nothing has descended to us, and but little of its 
after-time. Camden says " Those that live there 
tell you that a royal palace stood formerly on the 
west part of the town, near Haling, where the rub- 
bish [[of buildings]] is now and then digg'd up by 
the husbandmen ; and that the archbishops, after 
it was bestow'd upon them by the king, transferr'd 
it to their own palace nigher to the river*." But 
this is only idle tradition, and as such we leave it. 

As no additional light has been thrown on the 
obscurity which involves this venerable structure, 
we have thought it as well, after noting the re- 
spective prelates who are known to have resided 
heref, to annex the interesting " Account of the 

* Gibson's Camden's 'Britannia,' p. 159. See also Gale on the 
Itin. of Antinonus, p. 73. 

f Vide Registers of the See, Lamb. MSS. Lib. The registers of the 
Archbishops Mepeham, Stratford, UfTord, and Bradwardine are lost. 



THE PALACE. 75 

Palace of Croydon/' written by that learned anti- 
quary, Edward Rowe Mores, and published by Dr. 
Ducarel in his history of this town. 



Archbishops resident at Croydon. 

1273 Archbishop Kilwardby — who issued a 
mandate from this place, dated 4th September, 
1273*. 

1278 Archbishop Peckham. 

1294 Archbishop Winchelsey. 

1313 Archbishop Reynolds. 

1366 Archbishop Langham. 

1367 Archbishop Witlesey. 
1375 Archbishop Sudbury. 

1381 Archbishop Courtnay — who received his 
pall with great solemnity in the great hall (" in 
camera principali maner. sui de Croydon"} on 
the 14th May, 1382 f. 

1396 Archbishop Arundell. 

1414 Archbishop Chichele. 

1443 Cardinal Stafford. 

1452 Archbishop Kemp. 

1454 Cardinal Bourchier. 

* Archiepiscopi Cant, mandatum pro convocatione apud novum 
Templum, London, ex reg. Giffard Wigorn. fol. 41. See Wilkins's 
Concilia, Vol. II. p. 26. 

f Reg. Courtnay, fol. 9 a. 



76 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

1486 Cardinal Morton. 

1504 Archbishop Warham. 

1533 Archbishop Cranmer. Hume, speaking 
of the disgrace and subsequent decapitation of 
the Duke of Norfolk, says, " Cranmer, though en- 
gaged for many years in an opposite party to 
Norfolk, and though he had received many and 
great injuries from him, would have no hand in so 
unjust a prosecution; and he retired to his seat in 
Croydon" ^January, 1547]]. 

1555 Cardinal Pole. 

1559 Archbishop Parker. 

1575 Archbishop Grindall — who, on being 
urged to resign the archbishopric, petitioned 
that he might retain this palace, with the several 
lands appertaining to it. " Croydon house, he 
said, was no wholesome house, and that, both his 
predecessor and he found by experience ; notwith- 
standing, because of the nearness to London, whi- 
ther he must often repair, or send to have some 
help of physic, he knew no house so convenient 
for him, or that might better be spared of his 
successor, for the short time of his life*." 

The sum of his petition was to retain the pa- 
lace,, the meadow adjoining, called "Stubbs," 
Croydon park, and eighteen acres of meadow, ly- 

* Strype's Life of Grindall, p. 284. 



THE PALACE. 77 

ing at Norbury*. He died in this palace, 6th 
July, 1583. 

1583 Archbishop Whitgift. Sir George Paul, 
in his life of this prelate, writes " And albeit the 
archbishop had ever a great affection to lie at his 
mansion-house, at Croydon, for the sweetness of 
the place, especially in summer-time, whereby also 
he might sometimes retire himself from the multi- 
plicity of business, and suitors in the vacation ; yet 
after he had builded his hospital and his school, 
he was farther in love with the place than before. 
The chief comfort of repose, or solace, that he took 
was in often dining at the hospital, among his 
poor brethren, as he called themf." 

1610 Archbishop Abbot — resided much at this 
palace, where he died, August 5th, 1633. In 
1617, "This archbishop being at Croydon the 
day the Book of Sports was ordered to be read in 
the churches, he flatly forbid it to be read there ; 
which King James was pleased to wink at, not- 
withstanding the daily endeavours that were used 
to irritate the King against him J." Archbishop 
Abbot cut down the timber, which, till his time, 
completely surrounded the palace. Among the 
Harleian MSS. we find the opinion of the Lord 

* Strype's Life of Grindall, p. 286. f Ibid. p. 112. 

\ Complete Hist, of England, Vol. 2, p. 709; see also Strype's Life 
of Grindall. 



78 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Chancellor Bacon on this alteration. " The arch- 
bish. of Canterbury (Abbot) had a house, by 
Croydon, pleasantly sited, but that it was too 
much wood-bound, so he cutt downe all upon the 
front to the highway. Not long after, the L. 
Chancellor Bacon riding by that way, asked his 
man whose faire house that was ; he told him, my 
L. of Canterburie's. It is not possible, sayes 
he, for his building is inviron'd with wodde. 'Tis 
true S r , sayes he, it was so, but he has lately cut 
most of it downe. By my troth (answered Bacon), 
he has done very judiciously, for before me- 
thoughts it was a very obscure and darke place, 
but now he has expounded and cleared it wonder- 
fully well*." 

1633 Archbishop Laud — Upon whose execution 
the palace and lands were sequestrated, and, 
after having been leased to Charles, Earl of Not- 
tingham, were offered for sale, when a survey was 
made for that prupose 17th March, 1646, by Ed- 
ward Boyer, Esq., and others. This sale, however, 
did not take place, and the commissioners grant- 
ed the estate to Sir William Brereton, Bart, f who 
resided here during the protectorate. 



* No. 6395, p. 90. 

f This distinguished parliamentary general was the eldest son of 
William Brereton, Esq., of Honford, in Cheshire, where he was born, 



THE PALACE. 79 

1660 Archbishop Juxon. 

1663 Archbishop Sheldon — retired here after 
the great plague of London, where he died 9th 
November, 1677. 

1715 Archbishop Wake. Dr. Rawlinson, in 
his additions to Aubry's Topographical Account 
of Surry, published in 1718, says, "This seat at 
present is in a very bad condition, insomuch, that 
the present possessor of the see of Canterbury 
has demanded 1400/. for dilapidations belonging 
to this house, which is 1280/. more than Pole's 
executors paid, and 'tis probable, that 'tis 1350/. 
more than was paid by Grindall's executors ; and 
this demand is thought the more severe, inasmuch 

1605. On reaching his majority he received a patent of baronetcy, 
and, in 1628, represented his native county in parliament, and again 
in 1640. On the 18th August, 1642, on the breaking out of the 
great rebellion, he narrowly escaped falling a victim to the populace, 
for ordering a drum to be beat in Chester for the parliament. In the 
same year he received a commission from that power, to arm the 
county, and to seize the goods and weapons of the disaffected; and in 
June, 1644, was appointed Major-General of the Cheshire forces. On 
the appointment of the twelve Major-Generals, in 1655, Sir William 
had the government of Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Lancashire, con- 
ferred upon him. 

As a reward for his gallant services, he received, besides the seques- 
tration of the archiepiscopal lands of Croydon, the sequestration of 
Cashioberry, and other lands of Lord Capel, amounting to 2000Z. per 
annum, the chief forestership of Macclesfield, and the seneschalship 
of that hundred. He died April 7th, 1661. For his military achieve- 
ments, vide Rycraft's England's Champions, Vicar's England's Wor- 
thies, Clarendon, &c. 



80 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

as His Grace is said to have discovered his inten- 
tion of suing to His Majesty for a royal licence,, 
that, in a legal way, he may be empowered to 
pull down some of the buildings at Lambhithe, 
and the buildings at Croydon, these last being 
situated, as his Grace apprehends, in an ill air *." 

1736 Archbishop Potter. 

1747 Archbishop Herring, who died here 13th 
March, 1757. 

1757 Archbishop Hutton. 



SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PALACE OF CROYDON, BELONG- 
ING TO THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY BY 

EDWARD ROWE MORES, M.A., F.S.A.f 

The capital residence of the archbishops of this 
see was anciently the palace at Canterbury, si- 
tuated near their cathedral, and given by King 
Ethelbert, after his conversion to Christianity, to 
Augustine and his successors for ever J. 

* Vol. II. page 33. — Vide " The true Copies of some Letters, oc- 
casioned by the Demand for Dilapidations in the Archiepiscopal See 
of Canterbury. Part II. p. 7 : London, 1716." 

f Author of " Nomina et Insigna gentilitia Nobilium Equitum- 
que sub Edwardo primo rege Militantium;" "History and Antiqui- 
ties of Tunstall in Kent ;" and several pamphlets relating to the Equi- 
table Society. He was also Editor in conjunction with the Rev. Wil- 
liam Romaine, of Calasio's Hebrew Concordance; and published a 
new edition of Dionysius Halicarnassensis' " De Claris Rhetoribus. " 

\ Monast. Ang. Vol. 1, p. 18. 



PLAN 



<DR<DW<DIKI PALACE 



(GK®Y!MIDS, 



TAKEN IN 1 7 SO. 




' oo Feet 



: 



THE PALACE. 81 

But, besides this palace, the archbishops had 
many other castles, seats, and manors, where they 
from time to time resided, as their inclinations 
for retirement or pleasure did direct them. 

Of this number was the manor of Croydon, a 
place which has for many ages belonged to the 
see of Canterbury, and is now particularly famous 
for a magnificent palace of the archbishops of that 
see, which has been greatly improved and adorn- 
ed by his present Grace £ Archbishop Herring^. 

To deduce this fabric from its original, and to 
describe in some sort the alterations which have 
been made in it since its first foundation, is the 
subject of my present design: an undertaking so 
circumstanced, that the great distance of the time 
at which we are to begin, is one of the least difficul- 
ties which will attend us in the prosecution of it. 

To discover the original of the palace, we must 
necessarily seek after that of the manor-house of 
Croydon, out of which the palace hath arisen ; 
and to come at the original of the manor-house, 
we must begin with that of the manor itself, 
whose period of existence is well known to have 
commenced shortly after the Conquest, when the 
Conqueror, seizing the lands of the Saxons, and 
distributing them amongst his Norman followers, 
created a new kind of tenure, and gave birth to 
that estate which is now called a manor. 



82 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Appertaining to the manor was the capital mes- 
suage or mansion-house of the lord of the fee 
(from whose usual abiding therein the very 
name of manor is derived); which being there- 
fore so essentially connected therewith,, must be 
esteemed coeval with the manor itself, and to 
have its beginning between the years 1066 and 
1087; within which time this manor of Croydon 
was given by the Conqueror to Lanfranc, Arch- 
bishop of Canterbury. 

Here we see the original of this sumptuous edi- 
fice, which, from a poor and low beginning, has 
at length, by the munificence of its possessors, 
arrived to the state of grandeur in which we now 
behold it. 

When we consider Croydon as belonging for 
many ages to the see of Canterbury, and by that 
means exempted from those frequent changes of 
possession so destructive to the evidences of pri- 
vate property, it may seem no very difficult mat- 
ter to pursue this fabric through its several gra- 
dations, and to point out with some degree of 
certainty the different periods of its increase and 
splendour ; but it has so happened, that an unfor- 
tunate loss of those records, which alone could 
have been serviceable in this respect, has eluded 
the most strict search that can possibly be made 
for this purpose ; a fatality which seems to be in 



THE PALACE. 83 

a manner peculiar to Croydon : since, had it been 
necessary to describe the palace of Lambeth, of 
Otteford, or of Maghfield, or perhaps any other 
seat which formerly belonged to the Archbishop 
of Canterbury, such a search had been attended 
with greater success, and more answerable to the 
labour of the inquirers. 

In a former paragraph we have discovered the 
original of the palace of Croydon in the foundation 
of the manor-house of Croydon, and have also 
very nearly determined the time when that manor- 
house was first erected: the time so fixed upon 
will direct us to i\.rchbishop Lanfranc as the foun- 
der of it ; and the purposes for which it was built 
will necessarily point out to us the same person 
for the builder. For Archbishop Lanfranc, having 
received from the King a certain quantity of land 
here, which was to be parcelled out amongst in- 
ferior tenants holding of the archbishop, must of 
necessity have prepared a place for assembling 
those tenants at stated times, to perform the rents 
and services which by their tenure were due to 
this manor. I shall therefore not scruple to set 
down Archbishop Lanfranc as the first founder of 
the palace of Croydon; and, to corroborate an 
assertion which I think may be supported by good 
arguments, I shall add the authority of Eadmer, 
a monk of Canterbury, who lived in the times we 

g2 



84 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

are speaking of, and, in his account of Arch- 
bishop Lanfranc, tells us that he built much in 
the vills belonging to the archbishoprick*f. 

But of Lanfranc's building nothing is at this 
time remaining. Thus much we may venture to 
say of it, that what was by him built was agree- 
able to the simplicity of that age, and the uses 
for which it was intended ; being rather calculated 
for the habitation of the reeve, and the occasional 
reception of those who owed their suit and service 
there, than for the residence of an archbishop. 

In those early ages, the archbishops either led 
a conventual life in common with their monks, or 
at most resided in their palace at Canterbury; 
and at present I know but one archbishop who 
lived elsewhere, before Baldwin procured for him- 
self and his successors the manor of Lambeth, by 
an exchange with the Church of Rochester. 

After his time, we have some evidence of the 
archbishops dwelling at their manor-houses, as 
ArchbishopWalter, atTenham; Archbishop Lang- 
ton, atSlindon; and Archbishop Boniface, at Mort- 
lake ; but then, and for many years afterwards, as 
it appears to me, the chief use which the arch- 
bishops made of these houses was to supply the 
place of houses of entertainment upon the road, of 

* Hist. Nov. p. 9. 
f Archbishop Lanfranc rebuilt Canterbury Cathedral. — G.S.S. 



THE PALACE. 85 

which the country was then in a great measure, if 
not entirely, destitute. To these the archbishop 
and his attendants repaired, and were accommo- 
dated when they journeyed, as we are expressly 
told*, Archbishop Stratford did on his way from 
Canterbury to the parliament holden at West- 
minster, in the year 1341, whither he was sum- 
moned to answer to the articles brought against 
him by the crown. 

But archbishop Kilwardby is the first instance 
I can produce of an archbishop who ever dwelt 
at Croydon; and his dwelling there may be taken 
as a proof that this house was then fit for the re- 
ception of so great a prelate. 

Notwithstanding which, upon his resignation in 
the year 1278, the houses and castles of the arch- 
bishoprick were much out of repair, and cost his 
successor, Archbishop Peckham, no less than 3000 
marks f , some of which were, in all likelihood, laid 
out at Croydon ; for this archbishop resided much 
there. In his time begins the registry of the see 
of Canterbury, which affords the earliest mention 
I have hitherto seen of a chapel in this manor of 
Croydon, by recording an ordination holden there- 
in, in the year 1 283 J. 
Archbishop Winchelsea succeeded. With the lat- 

* Birchington, p. 38. f Antiq. Brit. p. 297, edit. ult. 

X Reg. Peckham, fol. Ill a. 



86 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

ter part of his pontificate, or perhaps with the age 
of his successor, Archbishop Reynolds, do coincide 
certain reparations made at Croydon, the particu- 
lars of which are mentioned in the minister's ac- 
counts of the year*. The roll is imperfect, and 
the date wanting ; but Richard de Fairford was 
then bailiff, and Thomas de Bunchesham reeve of 
Croydon. In that year the kitchen and salsary 
were repaired, the wardrobe boarded, the bake- 
house and stable, together with the sheepcotes 
and stalls for oxen, weather-boarded and put into 
repair, At this time the buildings were all of 
timber, no other workmen but carpenters being 
employed about them. In the same roll is another 
charge on account of the kitchen-garden and the 
vineyard. Another article I meet with therein, 
which, though not relative to our present purpose, 
I cannot pass over unnoticed ; thirty cart-loads 
of coals were bought this year by the bailiff 
of Burstowe, which cost, the carriage included, 
53*. 9d. 

A very slender and broken clue remains to con- 
duct us through the space of almost an hundred 
years next succeeding ; of which time no inconsi- 
derable part is without any memorial whatever. 
Within this space Archbishop Wytleseye, residing 

* Rot. Lacerat. de temp. E. II. 



THE PALACE. 87 

here, celebrated three ordinations in the chapel of 
his manor of Croydon, in the year 1371*. 

Archbishop Courtney received his pall in the 
same chapel f . At the time of his accession to 
the see, the manors of the archbishoprick were in 
a very ruinous condition. This general decay in 
the temporalities occasioned a compromise J to 
be made between the archbishop and the prior 
and chapter of Canterbury, which was ratified by 
the king. Thereby it was stipulated, that certain 
of the places so fallen to decay should be kept up 
and sustained by the archbishop and his successors 
in manner as heretofore ; and that the others should 
only be maintained in meet repair for the purposes 
of economy and husbandry. In consequence of 
this, a warrant issued from the archbishop to his 
steward, 8th January, 1382-3, empowering him to 
take away the houses, stone, and timber from one 
part of his manors, and directing him to employ 
the materials in the most advantageous manner 
for the service of the others §. 

But nevertheless Archbishop Courtney was at 
vast, heavy, and extraordinary charges; and in 
his last will earnestly recommends his affairs to 
the king, entreating him to see that his executors 
be not injured by an exorbitant demand on the 

* Reg. Wytlesey, fol. 167 b & seq. % Ibid. fol. 51 b. 

f Reg. Courtney, fol. 9 a. § Ibid. 



88 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

score of dilapidations, and that some regard be 
had to the bad condition in which he found the 
possessions of the archbishoprick, and the great 
sums he had expended on that account*. 

I have not been so fortunate as to see the com- 
promise made between Archbishop Courtney and 
the church of Canterbury, or to meet with any 
particular of the structures which were repaired 
in pursuance of it. But, supposing that the manor- 
house of Croydon was of the number, if we consi- 
der the circumstance of the pall being delivered 
here, which might create in Archbishop Courtney 
a liking to the place, and that this archbishop 
spent part of every year of his pontificate at his 
manor of Croydon, we may reasonably enough be 
led to think that something more was done here 
thane ommon reparations only ; and indeed it ap- 
pears that the mansion-house of Croydon had at 
this time increased in its buildings and convenien- 
ces ; for whereas hitherto the archbishops had no 
more than one chamber whereto they could re- 
tire, which was their bedchamber, so that acts 
are frequently said to be performed juxta ledum 
domini and ad j)edes lecti ; we now meet with a 
more honourable apartment, a best or spare 
room, called the chief or principal chamber f, 

* Cant. Sacr. App. No. 13 c. f Reg. Courtney, fol. 9 a. 



THE PALACE. 89 

used perhaps upon more great and special occa- 
sions. 

But as the mention of this principal chamber 
occurs rather too early* in the time of Archbishop 
Courtney for us to suppose that it was built by 
him, the credit of my conjecture shall not rest 
upon this particular alone, especially as I have a 
far less doubtful testimony to produce in support 
of it — a chapel built by this archbishop f in his 
manor of Croydon, underneath the privy-chamber 
near the garden, wherein a special ordination was 
held 28th May, 1390. This was a small chapel, 
intended for private use ; the other for public uses. 
The old chapel, as I imagine, which has been so 
often mentioned, is afterwards, by way of distinc- 
tion, called "the chapel of the manor of Croydon J." 

In the pontificate of the same archbishop also 
was a new granary, with a chamber over it, erected, 
and a new wall contiguous thereto built towards 
the church-yard, which wall was repaired in the 
year 1400 §. 

It may give some little insight into the customs 
of our ancestors, as well as assist us to form a 
truer notion of the buildings here, if upon this 
mention of a wall I should describe a method of 
constructing one used before we had any know- 

* Sc. anno 1382. f Reg. Courtney, fol. 251 a. J Ibid. 

f Comp. Adae Bochers ppos. de Croyd. 1400. 



90 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

ledge of bricks : a French invention, the use of 
which was introduced into England by the atten- 
dants on King Henry V. during his wars in France. 
Before this period, our walls (those I mean which 
were not built with stone) were composed of tim- 
bers set into the ground at proper distances, and 
covered on each side with laths, which again were 
covered with plaster. This perishable structure 
was guarded at the top with concave or roof tyles, 
to defend it as much as might be against external 
injuries. Such was the wall here mentioned, con- 
tiguous to the church-yard ; such the garden wall 
spoken of hereafter, and many other walls about 
the manor-house of Croydon. 

We have now passed through the fourteenth 
century, and are brought down to the days of 
Archbishop Arundell, in whose pontificate the first 
thing I meet with is the computus of Adam Bo- 
chers, reeve of Croydon, from Michaelmas 1399, 
to Michaelmas 1400. I ascribe this roll to the 
time of Archbishop Arundell; for though Arch- 
bishop Walden was possessed of the see of Can- 
terbury in the year 1399, yet I have good reason 
to believe that Archbishop Arundell was restored 
to it before the 2nd of October in that year. 

In this roll, Bochers, by his attorney, John 
Pieres*, accounts for a sum of money expended 

* Comp. Adae Bochers. 



THE PALACE. 91 

in building a new stable and a chamber at Croy- 
don, the particulars of which building are very 
accurately enumerated. This stable is afterwards 
mentioned under the name of the new stable, and 
sometimes by the name of the great stable, to 
distinguish it from another, which is called the 
old stable. Between these two stables was a wall 
of lath and plaster, defended at the top with 
ridge-tiles; and another wall of the same mate- 
rials connected with the great stable, with an 
apartment called the privy chamber, both which 
buildings were built this year. 

The same roll informs us of another building 
which was erected this year also, and, as it should 
seem, from the foundations. It is called the hall, 
and is described as situated opposite to the cellar 
towards the herbarium; but the name does not 
seem to convey any idea of the building, or of the 
uses to which it was appropriated. 

After the new building, I am to take notice of 
the repairs of this year; which were, the new 
hanging the great gate of the manor, and the old 
racks in the old stable ; the reparation of the 
chamber over the granary; a new door to the 
cellar; and a new door-case of Caen stone; and 
without doors, the inclosure about the pond of my 
lord's garden, and the inclosure of the garden it- 
self were amended, and a new hedge was this 



92 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

year made from my lord's park to a spot between 
the corner of the kitchen and the pond. 

(1401) Soon after these alterations, I read that 
Archbishop Arundell did ordain an oratory within 
his manor of Croydon *, which has given occasion 
to surmise that the chapel belonging to this ma- 
nor was about this time either rebuilt or repaired ; 
but, considering what we have so lately read of 
Archbishop Courtney, I should apprehend, this 
oratory was the private chapel built by him, rather 
than a temporary structure, set apart for the per- 
formance of divine offices, at a time when the prin- 
cipal chapel was not in a condition to be used. 

The situation of this chapel, built by Archbishop 
Courtney, we know by the information of an evi- 
dence yet remaining f. A word or two may be 
added concerning the situation of the principal 
chapel, and other the buildings before mentioned. 

I imagine then that the principal chapel stood 
where the chapel at present standeth. To the 
south of it was the principal chamber, adjoining 
to which was the privy chamber, and to the south 
of these was the chapel built by Archbishop 
Courtney; I am aware that what I now say may 
be liable to an objection, as I have before men- 
tioned a wall connecting the great stable and the 

* Reg. Arund. I. 327 b. + Reg. Courtn. fol. 312 a. 



THE PALACE. 93 

privy chamber. But I am of opinion, that this 
was a different apartment, though it is called by 
the same name, the privy chamber ; otherwise we 
shall be at a loss to account for the difference of 
expression used in speaking of this apartment; as 
it is sometimes called the privy chamber at the 
east end of the stable, and sometimes the privy 
chamber towards the garden, a distinction which 
seems to prove the reality of two apartments, each 
bearing the same name. But should this dispo- 
sition of the apartments in the manor house of 
Croydon be contradicted by any thing which shall 
be discovered hereafter, or shall appear erroneous 
to a person well acquainted with the place, w r hich 
I have never seen but in a drawing, I hope a mis- 
take will easily be overlooked in a matter where 
the most likely conjecturer is the best historian. 

And here again, written evidence failing me, 
the want of it must be supplied by an authority 
of less weight indeed, yet such as is not totally 
to be disregarded; I mean the representation of 
coat armour upon the buildings, a method much 
in use with our forefathers, as an expedient to 
preserve to posterity a remembrance of themselves 
and their benefactions. 

Of the arms, which I am informed are now 
remaining in the palace at Croydon, I shall take 
notice of those only belonging to the Archbishops 



94 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Arundell and Stafford. The former are placed in 
the guard chamber, which was built by Archbishop 
Arundell, in the place where before stood the 
principal chamber, and may, without impropriety, 
be called the principal chamber, as rebuilt by 
Archbishop Arundell. The arms of Archbishop 
Stafford are more than once repeated in the hall, 
and may be looked upon, in some sort, as a proof 
that he repaired and beautified it ; which I am in- 
clined to think, rather than that he entirely rebuilt 
it; because there is something in the building 
which seems to speak the age of King Richard II. : 
but as from thence, though a sufficient proof that 
the building is not older, I cannot affirm that it 
is so old, I forbore to mention it in its proper 
place. 

(1456) I pass on to the time of Archbishop 
Bourgchier, who, soon after he came to the see of 
Canterbury, new tyled * this manor house, and 
the out-houses belonging to it. For other repairs 
done at this time, a cart load of freestone was 
fetched from Mestham, but to what use it was 
applied I find not. This short account compre- 
hends the chief of the repairs made this year at 
the manor of Croydon, as they are recorded in 
an imperfect roll of the 34th of King Henry VI. 

* Rot. imperf. de ami. 34 Hen. VI. 



THE PALACE. 95 

But I must not forget to mention, that if evidence 
were elsewhere wanting to prove that Archbishop 
Stafford resided at Croydon, it might here be 
found in a carpenter's bill for making my lord's 
new bed at the manor house of Croydon. 

(1466) A record of other large repairs in this 
archbishop's time may be seen in the Computus* 
of Ric. Pykman, keeper of the manor of Croydon, 
from Michaelmas 1466 to Michaelmas 1467. 
But the nature of these repairs is only to be 
guessed at from the materials which were used, 
and the workmen who were employed about them. 
Of the former, the most remarkable articles are 
5500 tiles, and 241b. of solder ; and of workmen 
who were employed, one tiler and his man 18 
days, another 24 days, and a plasterer 4 days. 

(1474) A third reparation of the same sort was 
made at Croydon by the same archbishop, in the 
year 1474 f; then also were new racks and man- 
gers set up in the stables, and the top of the garden 
wall was covered with tiles. 

( 1 475) The repeated enumeration of very trifling 
particulars, which a want of better materials only 
can excuse, is made capable of some little variation, 
by what the accounts of the next year J present 

* Ex comp. omnium minist. hujus anni. 

f Comp. Joh. Lyttyll, ex rot. gen. 14 Edw. IV. 

X Rot. general imperf. de anno 15 Edw. IV. 



96 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

us with. In them we are informed, that besides 
the common work of tiling the roofs, and solder- 
ing the gutters of the manor house at Croydon, 
some binns for bread were this year made in the 
pantry, some work done in the pastry, and a cup- 
board put up in the hall. Over and above these 
performances, something more worthy our notice 
does yet remain to be mentioned : the work done 
this year over the altar in the chapel, for placing 
the jewels upon. Perhaps it may be too trifling 
to say, that the most early mention of a dove- 
house at this place is that which I meet with in 
the accounts of this year. 

(1485) The next repairs upon record are not 
particularized: they fall out in the year 1485*, 
and in the pontificate of Archbishop Bourgchier ; 
but I can say no more of them than that Joh. 
Lyttyll, then keeper of the manor of Croydon, 
accounted for \xs. iii^. laid out in repairs there 
done. 

(1520) I come now to the reign of King Henry 
VIII. and the pontificate of Archbishop Warham, 
making an advance of almost forty years, without 
any mention of the manor house of Croydon. And 
what I now meet with, is little more than a gross 
sum laid out upon the repairs of this place, which, 

* Comp. omnium min. hujus anni. 



THE PALACE. 97 

considering the time and other circumstances, is 
not a small one. The exact time when the sum 
was so expended is uncertain, because the roll* 
from whence my information is deduced is im- 
perfect, and the date wanting ; but I think it was 
not far from the year 1520. At that time was ex- 
pended in making four gates, and in wages paid to 
sundry carpenters, tilers, and other labourers, the 
sum of xl. xvs. iid. 

This is the last roll which contains any thing 
to our purpose, and with it I must conclude a very 
incomplete account of this eminent structure. An 
account which is sufficient only to shew what might 
have been done, had more of these records been 
preserved to us ; and that an history of the palace 
at Croydon was not without reason expected from 
the account rolls in the archives at Lambeth. 

* Comp. oium min. de temp. 



98 



HISTORY OF CROYDON. 




Description of the Palace. 

Dr. Ducarel, who prefaced his observations 
upon the building of Croydon Palace with a 
short dissertation relating to the antiquity of 
edifices built entirely of brick, was of opinion that 
such buildings were not to be found in England 
till the reign of Henry VI. [1422— 1482], and 
that the east and west sides of the great court 
of this Palace were some of the first of that age. 
But we are informed by Leland, that, in the time 
of Richard II., [1377— 1399^ the town of King- 
ston upon Hull " was inclosed with diches, and 
the waul byon, and yn continuance endid and 



THE PALACE. 99 

made al of brike, as most part of the houses of 
the town at that tyme was*." And again we 
learn, that, in the 1 Henry IV. £1399], licence 
was given to Sir Roger Tentys to embattle and 
fortify his mansion-house of Hurst-Monceux, Sus- 
sex, which is wholly of brick. According to 
Dean Lyttleton, Sir Roger availed himself of 
this licence soon after it was obtained. From 
these facts, therefore, we may be authorized to 
infer an earlier origin to the east and west sides 
of the Palace than Ducarel has assigned. 

The palace of Croydon, including offices and 
stables, formed in its perfect state an irregular 
quadrangle; the interior of which was about 156 
feet wide from east to west, and 126 feet from 
north to south. It is lowly situate, and ap- 
proached through an avenue from Church Street, 
once guarded by iron gates — the piers of which, 
erected by Archbishop Potter, bear the date 
1742f . The whole building was of brick, except 
the guard chamber, the great hall, the kitchen, 
and adjoining offices, which were of stone. 

The demesne extended over a space a little 
exceeding fourteen acres. 

* Leland's "Itinerary," by Hearne, 1710, Vol. I. p. 41. 
f At this gate, during the time of Archbishop Herring, the an- 
cient alms, called "The Dole," was distributed. 

H 2 



100 



HISTORY OF CROYDON. 




Porter's Lodge. 

The gateway and porter's lodge, with house- 
keeper's* house, forming the north-east angle, 



* The Keeper of the palace or mansion-house of Croydon enjoy- 
ed his office by patent from the archbishop. The names of those 
that I have been able to meet with are, Adam and Richard Pike- 
man, appointed by Archbishop Chichele, in 1441, (Reg. Chichele, 
Part 1, fol. 239 a); John Lyttyll, in 1474, and again in 1483, (Ex- 
cerpta ex Computis Ministrorum) ; Ralph Macon, Richard Tover- 
dine and Mathew Jenkins, the immediate predecessors of Ralph 
Watts and Sir George Askew, who were appointed by Archbishop 
Abbot in 1630, (Harl. MSS. No. 3797) ; Ralph Watts and Paul Wid- 



porter's lodge. 101 

were taken down about 1806, with the exception 
of the stone arch of the inner gate, and were con- 

dop, appointed in 1661, (Harl. MSS. No. 3798); and Edward Starke 
appointed by Archbishop Saneroft, (Harl. MSS. No. 3797, p. 153). 
His duty was as follows : — " To be and inhabit in the house above 
granted him for his own habitason, soe to be neare his busines. 
w ch is very carefully & dilligently to take notice of all defects & 
want of reparons of the mason house, stables, other outhouses, 
moates, ponds, pipes, & other watercourses, etc. ; and, as any small 
defects hap ne to be, immediately to take care that they be repayred; 
but if they hap ne to be any thing considerable, then & in such 
case, to make his applicason to us, or o r officers, and take & follow 
such directone as from time to time be given him by us or them 
for their speedy repay 11 & amendm*. 

" He shall take greate care of all the goods & furniture w ch now 
are, or at any time hereafter shall be brought into our said manson- 
house: and of & for w ch he shall make himself answerable by sub- 
scribing our Stew ts book of household goods; & from it taking an 
exact coppie signed by or steward, shall keep it safe, soe to prev* any 
mistake or misreconing that may arise concerning them. 

" He shall especially in most weather take care that surch be made 
in the severall respective roomes of o r s<* mansion-house for y e 
ayring of it, & the s d household goods, w ch will be very necessary, 
at least in the absence of us and of our successors from that place. 
And for w ch purpose, he shall have a competent allowance of fewell 
by war 1 & assignm 1 out of our woods commonly called North- 
wood. 

" He shall doe his uttermost endeav r to serve to us & our succes- 
sors all our royalties of hunting, hawking, & fishing, in the 
man ers of Croydon and Waddon ; he having our deputason, giving 
him power & authority to preserve the game : according to y e act 
of parliam* in that case made & p'vided. 

"He shall take care of all the demeasn lands w ch now are, or \v ch 
hereafter may be in ours, or o r successors hands. To see that ) e 



102 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

sidered by Ducarel to be of the age of Henry VII. 
In a MS. survey, made in the time of Arch- 
bishop Sancroft, it is thus described : — 

" It consists off a little dining roome, and a 
chamber over it, and are within the ffoundacons 
of the Tower. Over them are other lodging 
roomes (not belonging to the house-keeper) but 
were usually the chambers of the chaplains. 

" From that upper chamber there is a passage, 
on the left hand of which is a little chamber; 
and from that passage, on the right hand, is ano- 
ther passage w ch leads to three pretty good cham- 
bers with a closset or two belonging to them ; and 
beyond them is a little chamber over the gate, 
w ch leads into the back yard. 

" Below stairs, is a convenient kitchen, and a 
roome by it, constantly made use off for a larder ; 
and on the same ffloor are other little roomes 
for cellars, and for convenient laying of lumber 
out of the way. 

" Behind the house in a little yard (or curtil- 

hedges & fences be kept in good & sufficient rep. & to advantage & 
benefit of y e s d lands." 

There was an ancient fee of twopence per day attached to the of- 
fice, and the rent of several butchers' stalls set up in the market by 
Sir W. Brereton. In Archbishop Sancroft's time, I find the salary 
amounted to 10/. per annum, exclusive of the stalls, then let for 6L, 
but inclusive of the fee. (Harl. MSS. No. 3797, p. 153). 



porter's lodge. 103 

lage) is a wash-house ; and 5 beyond that, a small 
garden paled into the house. 

" There are two stables, and over them two hay- 
lofts; each stable will hold 4 or 5 horses; and 
stand adjoining the Porter's Lodge*." 



The stables, extending from the Porter's Lodge 
along the north side, have been recently convert- 
ed into cottages. 

The west side of the palace was removed in 
1808, for the purpose of enlarging the church- 
yard f. The doors and windows were narrow at 
the top; a long passage from a single staircase 
led to the rooms above, which were square, each 
having a chimney, and a small window looking 
into the churchyard. 

The east side, extending from the Porter's 
Lodge to the site of the kitchen offices, differs 
only from the west in respect to the stairs, this 
side having several flights, and some of the rooms 
being provided with a closet, but without any 
chimney. These apartments were occupied by 
the constant retainers of the archbishop; while 
those on the west were appropriated to visitors. 

* Harl. MSS. No. 3797, p. 152. 

•f The site of this building, measuring about one rood, was conse- 
crated the following year by Archbishop Sutton. 



104 



HISTORY OF CROYDON. 




Interior of Great Hall. 

The great hall, the former banqueting and 
council chamber of the archbishops,, appears to 
have been built by Archbishop Stafford, whose 
arms, with those of Humphrey and Henry 
Earls of Stafford, are to be seen in several places. 
The porch, which forms the principal entrance to 
the palace, projects from the north-east corner 
towards the court, and has the appearance of 
greater antiquity than the hall, the arches of 
the doors being in the old mitred style. Over 



INTERIOR OF GREAT HALL. 105 

this porch was formerly a small chamber; and op- 
posite is another entrance,, leading to the garden. 

The length of the hall is 56 feet; the width 
37ft. 9in. ; and the height, 37ft. 6in. It is lighted 
on the south by four windows, and on the north 
by three only, the space allotted for the fourth 
forming one of the sides to the chamber over the 
porch. These windows have a depressed arch for 
their head, and are divided by two vertical mul- 
lions, without a transom. On the north is the 
orielle window, differing from those usually placed 
in such situations, being here uniform with the rest. 
In the centre was formerly a fire-place with a 
louvre above. The music gallery was situate at 
the east end, and supported by a screen. The 
louvre was taken away by Archbishop Herring ; 
who also removed the orielle, or long passage, 
at the west end, and filled up the long, narrow 
window behind the music gallery. This window 
extended from the string-course to the roof. Im- 
mediately below the window were three arched 
doors leading to the buttery, kitchen, and cellars. 
The latter offices connected the hall with the 
east or servants' apartments, and were taken 
down about 18 10. Ducarel considered this part 
of the building to be of the age of Richard II. 

At the upper end of the hall was, till lately, 
the following remarkable coat of arms, supported 
by two angels, viz. azure, a cross fleury or, be- 



106 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

tween five martlets of the second, for Edward the 
Confessor; empaling quarterly 1 and 4 a%ure, 
three fleurs de lis or, for France ; 2 and 3 gules, 
three lions passant guardant or, for England. 
Under these arms is another angel, holding a 
scroll, which bears the following inscription, now 
almost illegible: — 

39ne galtmm fac xt%zm. 

These arms, which may be considered as coeval 
with the hall itself, originally stood in the orielle 
or passage before mentioned, from which place 
they were removed by Archbishop Herring to 
that just described. 

The covered crown, surmounting the shield, 
being first used by Henry VI., and his arms on 
the charter of foundation of Eton College having 
the same supporters, this coat has naturally been 
assigned to that King. 

Directly under this coat, on the string-course, 
were the arms of Archbishop Stafford — Or, 
in a border engrailed sable, a chevron gules, 
charged with a mitre of the first. This arch- 
bishop is supposed to have built or entirely re- 
paired the hall. On the north-east corbel were 
the arms of Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, created 
Duke of Buckingham 1444, to whom the arch- 
bishop was related — or, a chevron gules; and on 
the opposite corbel were those of the see of Bath 



INTERIOR OF GREAT HALL. 107 

and Wells, incorrectly emblazoned, azure, a sal- 
tire or, being given for azure, a saltire quarterly 
or and argent. 

The whole of the eastern side of the hall fell 
down on the 8th June, 1830. Upon its re-in- 
statement, the four several coats of arms, which 
we have just described, were placed at the oppo- 
site end. 

On the second corbel on the south side are the 
arms of the see of Bath and Wells, empaling the 
arms of Archbishop Stafford, which is in this in- 
stance without the border. Here again is ano- 
ther error, the dexter side instead of the sinister 
bearing the arms of Stafford. On the next cor- 
bel are the arms of the see of Canterbury, em- 
paling Stafford, as described in the first-men- 
tioned coat. Affixed to the fourth corbel are the 
arms of the same see, empaling those of Archbishop 
Herring*, gules, semee of cross croslets argent, 
three herrings hauriant of the last. On the 
north-west corbel, are the arms of the same see, 
empaling those of Archbishop Laud, sable, on a 
chevron or, three cross pattees fitchie gules, be- 
tween three estoiles argent. 

* Archbishop Herring completely repaired and fitted up this pa- 
lace, at an expense exceeding 6000/. Notwithstanding this large 
outlay, his executors were sued by his successor, Archbishop Hutton, 
for dilipidations ; and that prelate dying before the suit was termi- 
nated, Archbishop Seeker recovered damages amounting to 1,564/. 
45. \\d. 



108 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

On the second corbel on the north side, is an 
unknown coat; quarterly 1 and 4 gules, a chief 
or, 2 and 3 cheque or and a%ure, a chief of the 
second, over all a bend sinister or. On the third 
corbel on this side are the arms of Henry, Earl of 
Stafford; quarterly, 1, the arms of France and 
England empaled, in a border or, in mistake for 
argent; 2 and 3 a%ure, on a bend cotised argent, 
three mullets or, between six lions rampant gules, 
for Bohun; 4 or, a chevron gules, for Stafford. 
On the next corbel are the arms of France and 
England quarterly, with a label of three points, 
supposed to be the arms of Richard, Duke of 
York, the leader of the red rose party. On the 
last corbel, are the arms of the see, empaling 
Archbishop Juxon's* argent, a cross gules, be- 
tween four moors' heads full faced proper. 



The Guard Chamber, 

Situate on the west of the Great Hall, is 50ft. Sin. 
long, and 22ft. 6in. wide, having a fireplace in 
the middle of the north wall, with a frame above, 
once containing a scriptural or landscape paint- 
ing. Opposite to the fireplace is a bay window 
of more modern date than the room itself, look- 
ing into a small court. 

* This Archbishop also repaired the Palace. 



GUARD CHAMBER. 109 

This chamber was probably built by Archbishop 
Arundell, whose arms, quarterly, 1 and 4 gules, 
a lion rampant or, 2 and 3 cheque or and a%ure, 
appear in the north corner, empaled by those of 
the see of Canterbury ; and by themselves in 
the south corner. The other arms in this room, 
are those of the Archbishops Laud, Sheldon {ar- 
gent, on a chevron gules, three sheldrakes of the 
first, in a canton of the second, a rose of the 
last), Juxon, Cranmer (argent, a chevron sable, 
between three cranes of the last), and Parker 
(gules, on a chevron argent, three mullets of 
the first, between four keys of the second), the 
arms of England (quarterly, 1 and 4, France and 
England empaled; 2, Scotland; 3, Ireland), and 
those of France and England empaled*. 



The long gallery f was rebuilt by Archbishop 

* The following arms, which I have not been able to discover, are 
mentioned by Ducarel as being in Croydon Palace, in 1755. 

" 1 First and Fourth, gules a chief or; over all, a bend of the se- 
cond and third cheque or and azure, a chief or. 

2 Cromwell of Lincolnshire, [arg. a chief gu. } and baton az.~] 

3 Harrington of Derbyshire, [or a chief gu. on a bend az., an an- 
nulet.] 

4 Sir Thomas Garen, by the name of Palmer." 

The arms of the see, empaling Laud, with the date 1638, are to be 
found on the wall by the road leading to the old town. 

f In the MS. library at Lambeth palace is preserved a pane of 



110 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Wake*, on the site of the ancient one, and forms 
part of the south front of the palace. 

The green-house, forming the south-east angle 
of the palace, has been converted into a dwelling. 

The other rooms have been so much altered 
and otherwise abused, that we pass them over. 
Ducarel, who considered the dining-room (which 
extends from the guard-chamber to the church- 
yard), the adjoining apartments, and the rooms 
and the offices underneath, as one body of build- 
ing, says:— 

"The dining-room is of brick; the ceilings of 
some of the rooms underneath are of wood, and 
very low; the windows below stairs but small; 
and though they are not of the same make as 

glass, taken from one of the windows of this gallery, having the fol- 
lowing inscription . — 

" Memorand. Ecclise de 

Micham, Cheme & Stone cum aliis 

fulgure combustae sunt 

Januarii 14, 1638-9. 

Omen avertat Deus." 

together with a paper inscribed by Archhishop Wake as under: — 

" This Glasse was taken out of the west window of the gallery at 
Croydon before I new built it; and is, as I take it, the writing of 
Archbishop Laud's own hand." 

* The executors of this prelate were sued by his successor (Arch- 
bishop Potter) for dilapidations in the Court of Arches, 1737-8, who 
recovered 20061. 9s. lid., of which 484/. 13s. was on account of this 
palace. 



THE CHAPEL. Ill 

those of the east and west sides of the great 
court, yet I take this building to be near as old, 
and to have been built some time in the reign of 
King Henry VI. It hath been so frequently re- 
paired and altered by the several archbishops of 
this see, that there are at present few or no marks 
to ascertain the time when it was first erected. I 
could observe no more than two. 

" The first mark s§p below stairs in stone, in two 
places over the door at the bottom of the private 
staircase that goes into the garden. 

" The second mark I took notice of, was several 
smaller roses, thus * *, which I observed on dif- 
ferent parts of the ceiling in the apartment ad- 
joining to the great dining-room, which, I take 
it, was formerly a retiring or withdrawing room. 
As I do not remember to have seen these roses 
upon any buildings before the reign of Henry VI., 
I conclude they were built about that time." 



The Chapel 
Is situate to the north of the guard chamber. In 
the registers of the see we find that ordinations 
were held in the principal chapel (in capella prin- 
cipali manerii de Croydon), in the chapel of the 
manor of Croydon (in capella manerii de Croy- 
don) ; and in Archbishop Courtney's register, is 



112 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

recorded an ordination held in the private chapel 
beneath the privy chamber, near the garden, "jam 
de novo constructa*." Of the private chapel, no 
vestige now remains ; nor have we any mention of 
it, save in the above instance: the principal cha- 
pel, and the chapel of the manor of Croydon, 
were in all probability the same. The present 
chapel is certainly not that in which Archbishop 
Peckham held an ordination, 15th December, 
1283 f, though most likely erected on the same 
spot. The papal badge of the Cross Keys, on the 
western gable, as seen from the churchyard, de- 
note an earlier date than 1559, the year in which 
the first protestant archbishop was consecrated. 

The chapel is an oblong brick building, ascend- 
ed from the garden and churchyard by a project- 
ing stone staircase at the north-west corner, and 
had once a small belfrey at the west end. In the 
interior, the choir is divided from the anti-chapel 
by a neat screen, having open panels at the top, 
and but little tracery. There was a window at 
either end, but that on the west has long been 
closed. On the north side are three square win- 
dows, divided severally into five compartments 
by four vertical mullions terminating in de- 
pressed arches; and on the opposite side, two 

* Fol. 251 a. f Reg. Peckham, fol. Ilia. 



THE CHAPEL. 1 13 

windows of the same construction looking into 
the court, situate between this part of the edi- 
fice and the guard chamber. The window over 
the altar is divided by six vertical mullions ; it was 
formerly of stained glass, as appears by the pub- 
lished account of Archbishop Laud's trial, where 
it is stated, that " Browne, his joiner, being exa- 
mined at the Lords' bar against his will, confessed 
upon his oath, that, in the chapel of Croydon, there 
was an old broken crucifix in the window, which he, 
by the archbishop's direction, caused to be repaired 
and made complete ; which picture was there re- 
maining very lately ; for which work, Master Pryn 
found the glazier's bill, discharged by the arch- 
bishop himself, among other of his papers." The 
seats, which surround the room, are faced by low 
screens, ornamented at each end by a rising 
shield, carved generally on both sides, with the 
arms either of Laud or Juxon. The arms of 
Laud are empaled successively by those of the 
sees of St. David's, Bath and Wells, London, and 
Canterbury ; of the deanery of Gloucester ; and of 
St. John's College, Oxford. The arms of Juxon 
are also painted on either side of the centres of the 
arches which support the roof. At the south-west 
corner is a pulpit, overlooking the screen, and or- 
namented by the arms of the archiepiscopal see 
empaling Laud. The archbishop's seat, at the 

i 



114 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

right of the entrance of the choir, is conspicuous, 
and has a canopy. 

Archbishop Laud, it appears, placed an organ 
in this chapel ; for in his will, a copy of which is 
preserved in the MS. library at Lambeth, is the 
following legacy: — "Item, to Mr. Cobb, my or- 
gan that is at Croydon." He also intended to 
repair and beautify it throughout, a task which 
his unhappy death prevented him from com- 
pleting. 

After the execution of this prelate, the palace 
and estate, as before mentioned*, passed from the 
hands of the Earl of Nottingham into the pos- 
session of Sir William Brereton, Bart., " a nota- 
ble man at a thanksgiving dinner," to use the 
words of a writer of those days, '? having terrible 
long teeth, and a prodigious stomach, to turn the 
archbishop's chapel at Croydon into a kitchen, 
also to swallow up that palace and lands at a 
morsel f." In this state the chapel remained till 
the restoration of the see, when Archbishop 
Juxon continued the unfinished work of his un- 
fortunate predecessor, as is evident by his arms 
being placed in several parts of it. 

The following bishops were consecrated in this 
chapel : — 

June 26, 1553. — John Taylor, D.D., Bishop of Lincoln, by Arch- 

* Page 78. 
f The mystery of the good Old Cause briefly unfolded, 1660. 



THE CHAPEL. 115 

bishop Cranmer, assisted by Nicholas (Ridley), Bishop of London, 
and John (Scory), Bishop of Rochester*. 

May 6, 1553. — John Harley, D.D., Bishop of Hereford, by the 
same archbishop, assisted by Nicholas, Bishop of London, and Ro- 
bert (Aldrich), Bishop of Carlisle f. 

August 2, 1579. — John Woolston, D.D., Bishop of Exeter, by 
Archbishop Grindall, assisted by John (Elmer), Bishop of London, 
and John (Young), Bishop of Rochester J. 

September 18, 1580. — John Watson, D.D., Bishop of Winches- 
ter, and William Overton, D.D., Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 
by the same archbishop, assisted as before J. 

September 3, 1581. — John Bullingham, D.D., Bishop of Glou- 
cester, by the same archbishop, assisted as before J. 

August 4, 1628. — Richard Mountague, D.D., Bishop of Chiches- 
ter, by William (Laud), Bishop of London, Richard (Neale), Bishop 
of Winton, John (Buckeridge), Bishop of Ely, and Francis (White), 
Bishop of Carlisle^. 

September 7, 1628.— Leonard Mawe, D.D., and Walter Curll, 
D.D., the first Bishop of Bath and Wells, the latter of Rochester, 
by Archbishop Abbot, assisted by Richard (Neale), Bishop of Winton, 
John, Bishop of Ely, and Francis, Bishop of Carlisle [|. 

October 24, 1630. — William Peirse, D.D., Bishop of Peterborough, 
by the same archbishop, assisted by Richard, Bishop of Winton » 
Theophilus (Field), Bishop of St. David's, Richard (Corbet), Bishop 
of Oxford, and John (Bowie), Bishop of Rochester**. 

* Reg. Cranmer, fol. 335. f Ibid. fol. 583. 

I Strype's life of Grindall. 

§ Laud's Diary, page 3. That the primate did not officiate at 
this consecration, may be accounted for by the fact, that Archbishop 
Abbot was about this time suspended for refusing to license the 
printing of a sermon by Dr. Sib thorp, justifying the King's demand 
for a loan ; or Dr. Mountague might possibly have refused (as was 
the case with many) to receive consecration at his hands, on ac- 
count of his unfortunate accident in shooting Lord Zouche's game- 
keeper in Leicestershire, 1621. 

|| Reg. Abbot, Part 2, fol. 156. ** Ibid. fol. 23. 

i2 



116 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

As Archbishops Seeker and Cornwallis, Hut- 
ton's immediate successors, did not make Croy- 
don their place of residence, this palace became 
greatly dilapidated; and, in 1780, an act of Par- 
liament was obtained " for vesting in trustees the 
capital messuage, with the appurtenances, at 
Croydon, in the county of Surrey, known by the 
name of The Palace of the Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, and two closes near thereto adjoining, in 
trust, to sell the same ; and for disposing of and 
applying the money to arise thereby, and receiv- 
ed on account of the dilapidations thereof, and 
other money, in the manner and for the purposes 
therein mentioned." 

In the preamble of this act, it is stated— 1. 
That the palace was in so low and unwholesome a 
situation, and in many respects so incommodious 
and unfit to be the habitation of an archbishop of 
Canterbury, that few of the archbishops had of 
late years been able to reside there, and the same 
was then unfit to be their habitation. — 2. That 
there then stood on the books of the South Sea 
Company, 5,402/. Ss. 3d. Old South Sea Annui- 
ties, in the names of Frederick, Lord Archbishop 
of Canterbury, and Richard Maurice Jones, Gent., 
deceased, in trust for the see, as stock which 
had been formerly purchased with money allowed 



THE PALACE. 117 

by the Commissioners for building Westminster- 
bridge, as a compensation to the Archbishop of 
Canterbury and his successors for the loss they 
sustained by destroying the horse-ferry from 
Lambeth to Millbank; the dividends whereof, 
amounting to 162/. Is. 2d., had been received by 
the Archbishops of Canterbury for their own use 
and benefit. — 3. That there was also standing in 
the name of the archbishop, 1,564/. 4s. 11^. 
Si. per cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, pur- 
chased by him in May, 1769, with the monies re- 
ceived by him for dilapidations at Croydon, and 
which, with the accumulated interest, amounted 
to 2,360/. 0s. 3d.— 4. That the archbishop had 
then lately purchased the leasehold interest in a 
farm belonging to the see of Canterbury, called 
Park Hill, situate within half a mile of the town 
of Croydon, and very proper for building on part 
thereof a new palace for the use of the said arch- 
bishop and his successors, in lieu of the palace at 
Croydon. 

By this act, the palace and appurtenances, de- 
scribed as " an ancient capital messuage, origin- 
ally intended for the place of residence in sum- 
mer of the Archbishops of Canterbury/' were 
vested in four trustees, the Lord Chancellor, the 
Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and the 



118 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Bishops of London and Winchester for the 
time being, with power to sell the same, either 
together or in parcels, or to pull down the 
buildings and sell the materials: who, by virtue 
of such power, sold by auction, October 10th, 
1780, to Abraham Pitches, Esq., of Streatham, 
(afterwards Sir Abraham) — " The freehold and 
absolute inheritance in fee simple of the said ca- 
pital messuage or mansion-house, with its rights, 
members and appurtenances, and also all houses, 
out-houses, edifices, buildings, gardens, orchards, 
tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances, 
to the said capital messuage or hereditaments be- 
longing, and their and every of their appurte- 
nances; and also two closes of land, containing 
by estimation about six acres, contiguous to or 
near the said capital messuage, with their appur- 
tenances ; and also the water-conduit or conduits, 
situate in a mead called Parson's Mead, in Croy- 
don, with the aqueducts, and the leaden pipe or 
pipes leading therefrom to a cistern in the said 
palace," for 2,520/. 

Thus the palace of Croydon, the residence of 
the primates of all England for so many centuries, 
--the seat of learning and the scene of unequalled 
splendour, eventually became appropriated to 
the printing of linen; whilst its gardens and 



THE PALACE. 



119 



orchards have been converted into a bleaching 
ground*. 

Qua Troja fuit, nunc est seges! 

* Since this work was prepared for the press, the whole demesne 
has been sold in various lots, the purchasers of which are rapidly 
converting many portions of this ancient pile into modern dwellings ; 
and its total demolition, which time could not have effected in cen- 
turies, will probably be achieved in a few years. 




120 



HISTORY OF CROYDON. 




CHAPTER VII. 



Zfw €$uxtf). 



This noble monument of the piety of our ances- 
tors, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is consi- 
dered one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical 
architecture in the county; it is situate at the 
bottom of the town adjoining the palace lands, 
and is of unknown antiquity. For although its 
foundation is said to have been laid in the time 
of Archbishop Courtney, it is merely a conjecture, 



THE CHURCH. 121 

arising from the arms of that prelate, (or, three 
torteaux), being till lately affixed to the north en- 
trance. And to the herald, we are again in- 
debted, when we place the date of its completion 
in the days of Archbishop Chicheley*, who ex- 
pended large sums on its building f, and whose 
arms, {argent, a chevron gules, between three 
cinquefoils of the last), are to be seen, terminat- 
ing on one side the spandril of the arch over the 
west or principal entrance. 

Domesday book informs us, that there was a 
church in Croydon at the time of the conquest; 
and looking still further back, we find that a 
church stood here in the Saxon era: for, to the 
will of Byrhtric and iElfwy, made anno 960 — a 
copy of which is printed in Lambard's Perambu- 
lation of Kent — is witness iElffie, the priest of 
Croydon. 

The present church is a large handsome stone 
building of the pointed style of architecture. Its 
lofty square tower, built of stone and flint, is ex- 
ceedingly well-proportioned, and rises to the 
height of four stories; it is supported by strong 
buttresses, and adorned at the summit by battle- 

* " Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterburie, was the new 
builder or especial repairer of Croydon church, as appeareth by his 
arms graven on the walls, steeple, and porch." Stowe's Annals, 
p. 631. 

f Duck, vita Hen. Chichele, 1617, p. 107. 



122 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

ments and crocketed pinnacles, issuing from octa- 
gonal turrets; it contains a good ring of eight 
bells, with chimes, which play a psalm tune every 
six hours. 

These bells are inscribed as follows: — 

1 My voice I will raise. 

And sound to my subscribers' praise 

At proper times. — Thomas Lister made me, 1738. 

2 Thomas Lister fecit, 1738. 

3 Thomas Lister fecit, 1738. 

4 T. L. 1738. 

5 T. L. 1738. 

6 Thomas Lister, Londini, fecit, 1738. 

7 Robert Osborn and Francis Meager, Churchwardens. Thomas 

Lister, Londini, fecit, 1738. 

8 Mr. Nath. Collier Vicker, Robert Osborn and Francis Meager, 

Churchwardens. Thomas Lister fecit, 1738. 

On the south-east corner, hangs the Saints' 
bell, its usual position, bearing this inscription ; — 

Francis Tirrell gave this bell, 1610. Recast in 17.57. 

The tower being repaired some years ago, the 
buttresses were entirely cased with Roman ce- 
ment, and the ornaments restored, when the fol- 
lowing inscription, commemorative of the same, 
was placed under the fine mullioned window, im- 
mediately over the entrance: — 

THIS TOWER REPAIRED IN 1807 & 1808, WILLIAM BROWN AND 
JOHN PHILLIPSON, CHURCHWARDENS. 

In regard to the time when a vicarage was 
founded in this church, we are again at a loss — 



THE CHURCH. 123 

its first mention is in 1289, when Henry de la 
Rye was presented to the vicarage of Croydon 
by iEgidius de Audenado, rector of the same. 
About which time, as we learn from an ancient 
Valor Beneficiorum, compiled in the twentieth 
year of Edward L, and preserved in the Bodleian 
library, it was valued as follows : — 

Decanatus de Croyndon. 

Ecclesia de Croyndon, Val. LX. Marc. 

Vicaria ejusdem, Val XV. Marc. 

In 1534, it was valued at 21/. 18s. ll^d.*; in 
26 Henry VIII., as under : — 

Rect' cum decimis de Croydon £24. 
Penc' vicar' de Croydon pd' 51. 6s. 8^.^ 

In Ecton's Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum — 

Clear yearly value /"Croydon V. (St. John Baptist) [Pecul]"\ Yearly tenths 
45/. 05. Od. J Pens. Prior de Bermondsey \. 21. 3s. 10tf. 

/ cvis. wind. Redd. Mansion, lid. j 

And in a Valor Beneficiorum, time of Archbishop 
Grindall : — 

Croydon vie' 21 li. 18s. lOd. 
Dec' 44s. 10f<£ 

The value of the vicarage in the King's books is 
21/. 18*. 9d., and is discharged from the payment 
of first fruits. 

An instrument, dated Maidenstone, 2nd July, 

* Reg. Win ton, Fox, pi. 5. 
f Transcript of Returns, 26 Hen. VIII. First Fruits Office. 



124 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

1348, copied at length in Appendix, contains an 
ordination held by Archbishop Stratford, to con- 
sider what portion of tithes belonged respectively 
to the rector and vicar of this church. At this 
ordination, it was settled that the rector should 
have all the great tithes, viz. corn, hay, falls of 
wood and timber within the parish, all live mortu- 
aries due at funerals, and a moiety of the tithes of 
lambs, which are to be tithed per capita, with a 
pension of eight marks to be paid by the vicar in 
equal portions on the Feast of St. Michael, 
Christmas-day, and the Nativity of St. John the 
Baptist. The vicar to hold the vicarage-house 
and garden, all oblations in the said church, a 
moiety of the tithes of lands tithed per capita, 
the money arising by right from lambs not tithed 
per capita, all tithes of wool, calves, pigs, geese, 
ducks, pigeons, cheese, milk, butter, herbage, 
apples, pears, and other fruits, with all tithes of 
flax, mustard, eggs, and merchandize. The said 
vicar is also required, with the assistance of ano- 
ther priest, to perform divine service in the said 
church, and to enjoy the ministering of the bread, 
wine, and candles; he is also required to find 
such books, surplices, vestments, and ornaments 
for the said church as are generally found by the 
rector or vicar by custom or right, to pay the 
tenths and all other charges imposed on the 



THE CHURCH. 125 

church of England,, according to the acknow- 
ledged taxation of 10/. sterling, at which the 
said vicarage is taxed. The said vicar is also re- 
quired to repair the chancel of the said church, 
viz. its roof and walls, externally and internally, 
and to be at the expense of all ordinary and ex- 
traordinary reparations required by the said 
church. The archbishop reserved to himself and 
his successors the right of augmenting or decreas- 
ing the revenues of the vicarage *. 

In the 11 Edward II., an " Tnquisito ad quod 
damnum^" was held previous to an exchange be- 
tween Archbishop Reynolds and the prior and 
convent of St. Saviour's Bermondsey, of the ad- 
vowson of this church, and two acres of land, of 
the yearly value of 2s., for a rent-charge in 
Wichesflete, of 28/. 12s. lid., and one hide of 
land and two mills, with their appurtenances, 
in South wark, valued together at 10 marks and 
4<s. per annum. The reason of this intended ex- 
change, for it is supposed that it never took place, 
the instrument being crossed out in the register, 
and the succeeding archbishops continuing to 

* In 1797, when the act of Parliament was obtained for inclosing 
the parish, a glebe was allotted, under the said act, to the vicar, but 
the parish is still subject to vicarial tithes, except the further part of 
Norwood; the right of Easter offerings is expressly continued to the 
vicar throughout the whole parish without exception. 

f Reg. Reynolds, fol. 98 b. 



126 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

present to the vicarage, was owing to the deteri- 
oration of the revenues of the convent by an in- 
undation of water; and the archbishop, fearing 
lest the said convent should be dissolved, pro- 
posed granting them the appropriation of the 
church of Croydon. 

In the register of Archbishop Courtney, is 
preserved an instrument dated 16th January, 
1390, containing an account of the exchange of 
this advowson for the manor of Waddon, made 
by that archbishop and Richard Dunton, Prior 
of St. Saviour's, Bermondsey. Having obtained 
the King's licence, dated 13th December, 14 
Richard II., together with the pope's bull, the 
case was argued on both sides in the church of 
Croydon, before Robert Bragbooke, Bishop of 
London, the pope's delegate, who confirmed the 
exchange. It was also agreed, by an indenture 
made between the above parties, that the colla- 
tion and patronage of the vicarage should conti- 
nue in the archbishop and his successors ; and that, 
upon a vacancy, the archbishop or his successors 
should propose two fit persons to the prior and 
convent, who should nominate and appoint to the 
said vicarage. 

On the 16th February, 1417, we find Arch- 
bishop Chichele issuing a commission, requiring 
John, Bishop of Sorron, to reconcile this church 



THE CHURCH. 127 

and church-yard, which had been then lately pol- 
luted by blood — The cause and manner of this 
bloodshed is untold; and the country being at 
that time internally at peace, we are led to ima- 
gine that it arose from some popular affray *. 

After the dissolution of the convent of St. Sa- 
viour's in 1538, the advowson of the vicarage re- 
turned to the archbishop ; and the great tithes, as 
part of the possessions of that convent, were 
granted to Thomas Walsingham, Esq., son and 
heir of Sir Edmund Walsingham, of Chislehurst, 
and Robert, son and heir of Richard Moyse, Esq., 
of Bansted. In the will of Sir Nicholas Heron, 
of Agecomb, proved in 1567, he devises his par- 
sonage of Croydon to his wife Mary, for life ; re- 
mainder to his son and heir Poyningsf and his 
issue; remainder to his sons, John, William, and 
Henry, in succession. In the 32 of Elizabeth, 
the rectory manor was in the possession of John, 
Lord St. John of Bletsoe J ; and, in 1659, it had 
again reverted to the Walsingham family ; for in 
that year, Sir Thomas Walsingham conveyed the 



* Reg. Chichele, fol. 331 a. 

f Captain Poynings Heron resided at Croydon, and held the 
command of 375 foot during the expected landing of the Spanish 
armada forces. Vide abstract of returns of able-bodied men, cap- 
tains, arms, &c, April, 1588. (Harl. MS, No. 168, p. 166). 

\ Terrier of Lands in Surry, Brit. Mus. No. 4705, Ayscough's Cat. 



128 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

manor to James Walsingham ; and a James Wal- 
singham, by will, dated 16th August, 1727, de- 
vised the manor and rectory to his sister, Lady 
Elizabeth Osborne, for life; but did not dispose 
of it after her death. He died 22nd October, 
1728, without issue, leaving three co-heirs, Lady 
E. Osborne, Anthony Viscount Montague, and 
Annabella Villiers ; from whom the several shares 
eventually descended to Robert Boyle Wal- 
singham, only remaining son of Henry Earl of 
Shannon ; who, in 1770, sold it to Anthony Joseph 
Viscount Montague; who, dying in April, 1787, 
left issue, George Samuel Viscount Montague, 
drowned in October, 1793, at SchafFhausen on 
the Rhine; in which year he had conveyed the 
manor with the middle chancel to Robert Harris, 
Esq., who died in September, 1807, when the 
trustees under his will sold the same to Alexan- 
der Caldcleugh, Esq., of Broad Green; whose 
son, Alexander Caldcleugh, Esq., is the present 
possessor. 

There were formerly two chauntries in this 
church, one dedicated to St. Mary, the other to 
St. Nicholas; that of St. Mary was founded some 
time previous to the year 1402, by Sir Reginald 
de Cobham, Lord Cobham*, of Sterrisburgh 

* Reginald de Cobham, Lord Cobham, of Sterborough Castle, 
Lingfield, was born about 1300, and having distinguished himself 



THE CHURCH. 129 

Castle, Surrey. The incumbent was required to 
pray for the repose of the souls of the said Lord 
Cobham, his wife Joan, daughter of Thomas se- 
cond Lord Berkley, his children, and of all faithful 
Christians. The presentation of the chauntry 
priest was vested in twelve of the principal inha- 
bitants of the town. 

The other, dedicated to St. Nicholas, was 
founded for the repose of the souls of John Staf- 
ford, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and of William 
Oliver, Vicar of Croydon. This chauntry must 
have been founded before 1443, as in that year 
Bishop Stafford was translated to the see of Can- 
terbury. The patronage of this chauntry ap- 
pears to have been in the Weldon family, and 
was first enjoyed by Richard Weldon, Esq., who 
presented in right of his wife. 

The interior of the church consists of two 
aisles, a spacious nave, and chancel; and mea- 
sures, exclusive of the tower, about 130 feet in 
length and 74 feet in width. The nave is sepa- 

in the French wars, was created a banneret by Edward III., who de- 
puted him a Commissioner for the management of several treaties 
with France, particularly that of Bretigny, 1360, when he renounc- 
ed his title to the kingdom. He held a principal command in the 
English army at the battles of Cressy and Poitiers, and was raised 
to the peerage in 6 Edw. III. He married Joan, daughter of Tho- 
mas Lord Berkley; and died of the plague, October 5th, 1362, leav- 
ing Reginald his son and heir. 

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130 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

rated from the aisles by handsome clustered co- 
lumns, which support pointed arches, and was for- 
merly divided from the chancel by twelve wooden 
screens of curious workmanship. These screens 
were taken away about the year 1817, to make 
room for the children of the school of industry ; at 
which time the pulpit was removed to its present 
situation, and the monuments cleaned and re- 
stored. During the execution of these works, a 
doorway, leading to a circular staircase in the 
south-east column of the nave, was discovered in 
the chauntry of St. Nicholas. 

" In the rebellion," says Aubrey, " one Bleese 
was hired, for half a crown per day, to break the 
painted glass windows,which were formerly fine*." 

On the left of the altar stands the font, of an 
octagonal form, supposed to be coeval with the 
church; it is of white marble, with quatrefoil 
panels on its sides, filled with grotesque heads 
and roses. Before the altar stands a brass eagle, 
with extended wings. 

The organ, a remarkably fine one, erected in 
1794, was the work of Avery, who always consi- 
dered it his chef d'ceuvre. 

On one of the brass chandeliers is this inscrip- 
tion : — 

This Branch erected in the year 1717. John Bowles & 
Luke Bird, Churchwardens. 

* Antiquities of Surrey, Vol. 2, p. 30. 



THE CHURCH. 131 

The following inscriptions are to be found on 
the exterior of the church. On the east end of 
the middle chancel : — 

THIS CHANCEL WAS REPAIRED & BEAUTIFIED BY ALEX R ' 
CALDCLEUGH, ESQ R ', IN THE YEAR 1808. 

On the east end of St. Mary's chauntry: — 

THIS CHANCEL END REPAIRED 1817, KNEVIT LEPPINGWELL, THOMAS 
HEWSON, CHURCHWARDENS. 

On the east end of St. Nicholas' chauntry: — 

1815. 

THIS CHANCEL END REPAIRED, JAMES ROGERS & FRANCIS 
SIMMONDS, CHURCHWARDENS. 

On the north entrance, where has lately been 

placed a neat porch, bearing, in the spandrels of 

the arch, the arms of his present grace, (A%. an 

eagle displayed erminois, charged on the breast 

with a cross fleury gu.) } and a mitre. 

"tExztXzii &nno Bomini 1829. S®tIIiam Enfipcn %c 3taim ISroofor, 
(£!)urrf)ftiarUcns. 

In the interior, on the west gallery, is inscribed — 

THIS CHURCH REPAIRED AND BEAUTIFIED, ANNO DOMINI 1823, 
W M * JOHNSON, W M « BLAKE, CHURCHWARDENS. 

On the 25th December, 1639, a violent storm 
of wind blew down one of the pinnacles of the 
steeple, which fell upon the roof, and did great 
damage*; and, in 1744, the church was consider- 
ably damaged by lightning. 

* History and Troubles of Archbishop Laud, p. 57. 
K 2 



132 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

On the 11th March, 1734-5, between two and 
three o'clock in the afternoon, a fire was disco- 
vered in the roof of the middle chancel, which 
was supposed to have been caused by some embers 
carelessly left there by the plumbers. It was soon 
extinguished, and the damage done did not exceed 
fifty pounds*. 

The following bishops were consecrated in this 
church : — 

1534. April 19. — By Archbishop Cranmer, Thomas Goodrich, 
D.D., Bishop of Ely f, and John Capon, alias Salcot, L.L.D., late 
Abbot of Hyde, Bishop of Bangor. 

1541. September 25. — By the same archbishop, John Wakeman, 
last Abbot of Tewkesbury and first Bishop of Gloucester J. 

1551. August 30. — By the same archbishop, John Scory, D.D., 
Bishop of Rochester §, and Miles Coverdale, D.D., Bishop of Exeter. 

1591. August 29. — By Archbishop Whitgift, Gervase Babington, 
D.D., Bishop of Llandaff||. 

1612. September 20. — By Archbishop Abbot, assisted by John 
(King) Bishop of London, Richard (Neile) Bishop of Lichfield and 
Coventry, and John (Buckeridge) Bishop of Rochester, Miles Smith, 
D.D., Bishop of Gloucester If. 

The vicarage-house adjoining the church-yard, 
was rebuilt by Archbishop Wake, in 1730, on the 
instigation of his lady, at a cost of about 700Z.** 
A house had been appropriated to the vicar so 
early as the reign of Edward ITI.ff 

* Parish Register. || Strype's Life of Whitgift, p. 382. 

f Reg. Cranmer, fol. 162 a. 5T Parish Register. 

% Ibid. fol. 171 a. ** Mills' Essay on Generosity. 

§ Ibid. fol. 334 a. ft Pat. 5 Ed. 3, Pt. 1, m. 28. 



THE CHURCH RECTORS. 133 



Rectors of Croydon. 

zEgidius de Audenardo was rector in 1282* and 
1295 f. He was canon of the church of St. Mary, 
Dover, and prebend of Pesmere J, also rector of 
Cherryng, which he resigned May 4, 1284§. 

John Maunsel was rector in 1309 1|, and in 
1310f. 

Richard A ungerville, a? de Bury, cl', presentat. 
per regem ad eccl' de Croydon, archiepatu vac', 
30th November, 1 Ed. III.** This divine, af- 
terwards Bishop of Durham, and author of the 
" Philobiblon," was the son of Sir Richard Aun- 
gerville, and derived his usual designation of De 
Bury from St. Edmund's Bury, Suffolk, where he 
was born, in the year 1287. He was educated at 
Oxford, became tutor to Prince Edward, after- 
wards Edward III., and receiver of the prince's 
revenues in Wales. On the accession of Edward 
III. he was appointed cofferer to his Majesty, trea- 
surer of the wardrobe, and clerk of the privy seal, 
for five years ; within which time he twice, as le- 
gate, visited the pontiff John, who nominated him 

* Reg. Peckham, fol. 146 a. § Ibid. fol. 207 a. 
f Ibid. fol. 97 b. || Ibid. fol. 52 a. 

t Ibid. fol. 36 b. % Reg. Wincbelsey, fol. 19 b. 

** Pat. 1 Ed. 3. 



134 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

chaplain to his principal chapel, and who gave 
him a bull, preferring him to the first vacant see in 
England. The King also, in the first six years 
of his reign, presented him to two rectories, (in- 
cluding that of Croydon), six prebendal stalls, 
the archdeaconries of Salisbury and Northamp- 
ton, the canonry of Weston, and the deanery of 
Wells*. On the death of Beaumont, Bishop of 
Durham, the prior and chapter elected Robert de 
Graystanes to the see, who was consecrated by 
the archbishop of that province, 14th November, 
1333 ; but the King refusing his consent, Gray- 
stanes was deposed, and the Pope conferred the 
bishopric on De Bury, who was consecrated 19th 
December this year. In 1334 he was appointed 
lord high chancellor and high treasurer of Eng- 
land, and died at Auckland, 14th April, 1345. 
John de Tounford was rector in 1348 f. 
William de Leghton, collated by Archbishop 
Islip, 12th January, 1351J. 

William de Wittleseye, collated by his uncle, 
Archbishop Islip, 12th April, 1352§. He after- 
wards became doctor of canon law at Oxford, and 
was preferred by his uncle to the office of vicar 
general, then to the deanery of arches, the arch- 
deaconry of Huntingdon, the bishoprics of Ro- 

"* Tanner. J Reg. Islip, fol. 259 a. 

t Reg. Courtney, fol. 178 b. § Ibid. fol. 263 b. 



THE CHURCH RECTORS. 135 

Chester and Worcester, and at last became Arch- 
bishop of Canterbury. He died 1374, having 
some time before exchanged this rectory for that 
of Clive, in the deanery of Shoreham, with 

Adam de Honton, LL.D., afterwards Bishop of 
St. David's, collated 3rd May, 1359*. He was 
canon of St. David's, consecrated bishop in 1361, 
appointed chancellor of England, January 11, 
1377, which office he quitted 1379, and died 
13th February, 1389. He built St. Mary's col- 
lege, near his cathedral, which he endowed with 
100/. per annum. 

Adam de Robelyn was rector in 1363f. He 
exchanged this rectory for the prebend of Ruyll, 
in the collegiate church of Abergwilly, with 

William Bourbrigg, who was admitted 8th 
June, 1363 J. 

John Quernby was rector in 1364 §. He ex- 
changed this rectory for the prebend of Wood- 
burgh, in the collegiate church of Southwell, 
York, with 

John Godewyke, admitted 28th March, 1365 ||. 

John Godewyke, LL.D., presented on the 6th 
November, 1370, by Edward III., who became 
patron, on the temporalties of the vacant arch- 

* Reg. Islip, fol. 282 b. J Ibid. 

+ Ibid. fol. 301 a. § Ibid. fol. 306 b. 

II Ibid. 



136 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

bishopric being in his hands*. He was the last 
rector of this church. 



Vicars of Croydon. 

Henry de la Rye, presented to this vicarage 
by iEgidius de Andenardo, rector of the same, 
4th August, 1289f. 

Thomas de Sevenoke is mentioned as vicar in 
1309 J. 

Thomas de Maydenestan, presented by John 
Maunsel, rector, in May, 1309 J. 

John de Horstede is stated to be vicar in 
1348 §. 

John de Stanesfelde, who was appointed Dean 
of Croydon 1 1 by a commission from Archbishop 
Islip, dated at Lambeth, 11th February, 1349^[. 
He exchanged this vicarage for the rectory of 
West Wickham, with 

Richard atte Lich', presented by William de 
Wittleseye, rector, 7th June, 1356**. 



* Wittleseye, fol. 82 b. J Reg. Winchelsey, fol. 82 b. 

f Reg. Peckham, fol. 40 a. § Reg. Courtney, fol. 176 b. 

|| The deanery of Croydon was composed of the churches of Croy- 
don, East Horsley, Merstham, Wimbledon, Barnes, Burstow, Charl- 
wood, Newington, and Cheyham. Croydon is now in the deanery 
of Ewell. 

H Reg. Islip, fol. 10 a. ** Ibid. fol. 271 b. 



THE CHURCH VICARS. 137 

John de Hamaldon, presented by Adam de 
Honton, LL.D., rector, 3rd December, 1361 *. 

Robert Okele, presented by John Godewyke, 
rector, May, 1373 f. 

John Lane, upon whose resignation 

John Brown was presented J. 

William Daper was rector in 1402 §. He ex- 
changed this vicarage for the rectory of Throck- 
yng in the diocese of Lincoln, with 

Richard Bondon, presented 7th August, 1402, 
by the convent and prior of St. Saviour's, Ber- 
mondsey§. He exchanged this vicarage for the 
wardenship of St. Mary Magdalen, with the pa- 
rish of Kingston, with 

John Scarburgh, who was presented by the 
same patrons, 18th December, 1405 ||. 

John Aldenham, alias Causton, presented by 
the same patrons 20th January, 1408 ^f. 

The vicarage became vacant before 23rd 
November, 1420; but in what manner we are 
not told, a blank being left in Archbishop Chi- 
cheley's register, (on the side of which is writ- 
ten " Institutio Vicarii de Croydon"), where 



* Reg. Islip, fol, 243 b. § Reg. Arundel, Part 1, fol. 284 a. 

f Reg. Wittlesey. || Ibid. fol. 305 b. 

X Reg. Courtney. f Ibid. Part 2, fol. 52 a. 



138 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

the name of his successor should have been 
inserted*. 

William Oliver*. 

John Langton; upon whose deathf 

Henry Carpenter, LL.B. was presented by the 
prior and convent of St. Saviour's, Bermondsey, 
30th October, 1487f . 

William Shaldoo, presented by the same pa- 
trons, 3rd December, 1487J, 

Roland Phillips, D.D., collated June 4, 1497§, 
by Archbishop Morton, with the unanimous con- 
sent of the prior and convent of St. Saviour's, 
Bermondsey. He was a canon of St. Paul's, pre- 
bend of Bryghtling in the collegiate church of 
Hastings, 9th June, 1507||; rector of St. Mar- 
garet Pattens, which he resigned in 1515; rector 
of St. Michael's, Cornhill, 14th August, 1517 f; 
prebend of Measdon, in St. Paul's, 28th Novem- 
ber, 1517^"; rector of Mestham, Surrey, 1520|| ; 
and warden of Merton College. This vicar, 
preaching at St. Paul's against printing, then 
lately introduced into England, uttered the fol- 
lowing singular passage : " We " (the Catholics) 

* Reg. Chichele, Part 1, fol. 121 b. f Bourchier, fol. 97 b. 
X Reg. Morton, Dene, Bourchier, Courtney, fol. 133 a. 
§ Reg. Morton, fol. 163 a. || Reg. Warham. 

% Reg. Fitz-James at Stokesly. 



THE CHURCH VICARS. 139 

" must root out printing, or printing will root 
out us*." 

Of this celebrated preacher, of whom so little 
is known, we subjoin the following notices. It 
is to be regretted that no memoir, however brief, 
of this man, apparently so notorious in his time, 
should exist. 

Roland Phillips. 

" This king (Henry VIII.) came to the title of 
< Defender of the Faith' (A.D. 1528) when Luther 
had uttered the abominations against the Pope 
and his clergy, and divers books were come into 
England, our cardinal (Wolsey) to find a remedy 
for it, sent to Rome for the title of c Defender of 
the Faith.' After, the vicar of Croydon preached 
that the king would not lose it for all London 
and twenty miles about itf." 

" And even as there was much ado amongst 
them of the Common House, about their agree- 
ment to the subsidie, so was there as harde holde 
for a whyle amongst them of the clergie in the 
Convocation House: namelye, Richard Byshoppe 
of Winchester, and John Byshoppe of Rochester, 
held sore agaynst it ; but, most of al, Sir Rowlande 

* Fox. t Acts of the Church, 1614, p. 169. 



140 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Philips, vicar of Croydon, and one of the canons 
of Paules, being reputed a notable preacher in 
those dayes, spake most against that payment. 
But the cardinall taking him aside, so handled 
the matter with him, that he came no more into 
the house, willingly absenting himselfe, to his 
great infamie and losse of that estimation which 
men had of his innocencie. Thus, the Bellwea- 
ther, giving over his holde, the other yielded, and 
so was granted the halfe of all their spirituall re- 
venues for one year, to be paid in five yeares fol- 
lowing, that the burthen might y e more easily 
be borne*." 

" Yet, because he (Sir T. More) would not 
blame anie man's conscience therein, he was com- 
manded to walke into the garden a while; and 
presently all the clergie men, some bishops, manie 
doctours and priests were called in, who all took 
it, except Bishop Fisher and one Doctour Wil- 
son, without anie scruple, stoppe, or stay; and 
the Vicar of Croydon, saith Sir Thomas, called for 
a cuppe of biere of the butterie barre, quia erat 
notus po?itijici, and he drunke valde familiari- 
terfr 

" The Vicar of Croydon, under the archbishop's 

* Holinshed's Chron. p. 1524. See also Stowe. 
f More's Life of Sir T. More, p. 222. 



THE CHURCH VICARS. 141 

nose, had been guilty of certain misdemeanours, 
which, I suppose, were speaking or preaching to 
the disparagement of the king's supremacy, and 
in favour of the Pope. Now, before he went in- 
to the country, and having as yet divers bishops 
and learned men with him at Lambeth, he thought 
it advisable to call this man before them at this 
time; but before he would do it, he thought it 
best to consult with Crumwell, and take his ad- 
vice whether he should now do it, and before 
these bishops or not*." 

" Besides these, were three that supplicated 
that were not admitted this year (1515), of whom 
Rob. Schowldham, before mentioned, was one, 
and Rowl. Phillips, M.A., an eminent preacher 
of his lime, afterwards warden of Mirt College, 
and another f." 

" January 2, 1522. Rowland Philips, M. of A., 
supplicated for the degrees of bach, and doctor 
of divinity, and was, as it seems, admitted. Soon 
after, by the power of the Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, he was thrust in warden of Merton College. 
He was now vicar of Croydon in Surry, one of 
the canons of Pauls, a famous and notable 
preacher, and a forward man in the convocation 
of the clergy, an. 1523, in acting and speaking 

* Strype's Life of Cranmer, p. 79. 
f Wood's Ath. Ox. by Bliss, Vol. 2, p. 41. 



142 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

much against the payment of a subsidy to the 



" He (Ruthall, Bishop of Durham) paid his 
last debt to nature, at Durham Palace, near Lon- 
don, on Wednesday the fourth of Feb. in fifteen 
hundred twenty and two, and was buried in the 
chapel of S. John Baptist, joyning to the abbey 
church of S. Peter in Westminster; at which 
time Dr. Rowl. Phillips, Vicar of Croydon, a 
great and a renowned clerk, preached an excel- 
lent sermon f." 

He also attended the funeral of Abbot Islip, at 
Westminster, in 1532, and preached his funeral 
sermon J. 

Peter Burough, M.A., collated on the resigna- 
tion of Roland Phillips, by Archbishop Cranmer, 
9th May, 1538§, pleno jure; on which day the 
archbishop issued a decree to John Cocke, LL.D., 
his vicar- general, to assign a pension of 121. per 
annum from the profits of the vicarage to the 
said Roland Phillips, for life, on account of his 
great age. 

John Gibbes, B. D., collated by the same 



* Wood's Ath. Ox. Vol. 2, p. 61. f Ibid, p. 723. 

J Widmore's Hist, of West. Abbey, Appendix, 10. 
§ Reg. Cranmer, fol. 364 b. 



THE CHURCH VICARS. 143 

archbishop, 12th April, 1542*. Of this prefer- 
ment he was, however, deprived for refusing to 
pay his tithes to the King; when he was suc- 
ceeded by 

David Kemp, collated by the same archbishop 
31st May, 1550 f; on whose resignation 

William Cooke was collated by the same arch- 
bishop, 13th September, 1553 J; upon whose 
death 

Richard Fynche was collated by Archbishop 
Parker, 23rd April, 1 560 § ; upon whose death 

Samuel Fynche was collated by Archbishop 
Grindall, 26th May, 1581 1|. 

Samuel Fynche, at the presentation of the 
king by lapse, 28th February, 1603; upon whose 
deathly 

Henry Rigge, M.A., was collated by Arch- 
bishop Abbot, 20th September, 1616**. 

Samuel Bernard, B.D., justice of the peace 
for the county, was collated, on the resignation 
of Henry Rigge, 10th August, 1624 ff. He was 
of Magdalen College, Oxford, and proceeded 
D.D. March 15, 1638. He was displaced by 
the committee for plundered ministers, in Feb- 

* Reg. Cranmer, fol. 364 a. || Reg. Grindall, fol. 551 b. 

t Ibid. fol. 411a. f Reg. Whitgift, Part 3, fol. 278 b. 

% Ibid. fol. 424 a. ** Reg. Abbot, Part 1, fol. 420 a. 

§ Reg. Parker, Part 1, fol. 342 b. ft Id. Part 2, fol. 337. 



144 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

ruary, 1643, " for errors in doctrine, supersti- 
tion in practice, and malignancy*." He was af- 
terwards rector of Farley, Surrey, and author 
of a funeral sermon on Ezek. xxiv. 16, Lond. 
1652. Antony a Wood says — " he was a Berk- 
shire man born, and had, in his younger days, 
been accounted a good Greek and Latin poet." 
His successor was 

Thomas Buckner, D.D.f , who was succeeded by 

Samuel Otes, M.A., who lies buried in the 
north chancel. He died in 1645. 

Francis Peck. In 1646, it was ordered by the 
committee that 501 per annum should be paid to 
Francis Peck, out of the impropriate rectory of 
East Meon in Hampshire, as an augmentation of 
the vicarage of Croydon. This money having 
never been received, the same sum was voted, 
20th September, 1684, to his successor, 

Edward Corbett, M.A., out of the sequestered 
rectory of Camber well J. 

Jonathan Westwood, appointed by Sir William 
Brereton, baronet, who was ordered by the com- 

* Walker's List of Ejected Clergy, p. 210. He died August 5, 
1657, and was buried at Farley, where he is described on his tomb 
as " Pastor fidus, vir nullo foedere fcedatus." 

•f " Samuel Barnard being displaced in 1643, Thomas Buckner, 
D.D., was appointed, but died in 1644." — Rawlinson's MS. notes on 
Aubrey. 

X Proceedings of the Committee, Bodleian Library. 



VICARS OF CROYDON. 145 

mittee for reformation of the universities, to pro- 
vide a minister to serve the cure of the church 
of Croydon; for whose stipend they assigned 
to him 501. per annum. I have not been able 
to discover the date of the appointment of this 
minister, nor the time of his cession (by death or 
otherwise) ; but certain it is that he was in receipt 
of the above stipend from the 31st May, 1654, to 
the 9th June, 1657*. He was probably suc- 
ceeded by — 

William Cleiver, D.D., collated by Archbishop 
Juxon in 1660 f, at the recommendation of Charles 
II., who had been imposed upon with regard to 
his character J. This divine was notorious for 
his singular love of litigation, unparalleled extor- 
tions, and criminal and disgraceful conduct, which 
eventually caused his ejectment from this bene- 
fice in 1684 §. He was a great persecutor of the 
royalists during the Commonwealth; and enjoyed 
the sequestered living of Ashton, Northampton- 
shire, to which he was appointed in 1645 ||, being 
at that time, according to Walker, scarce eigh- 
teen, " of a very ill life, and very troublesome to 
his neighbours^." He died in March 1702; and 

* Vide Appendix, No. V. 
f Parish Register. 
% Vide Appendix, p. 365. 

i Vide " Case of the Inhabitants of Croydon," Appendix, No. 11. 
|| Bridge's Northamptonshire, Vol. 1, p. 284. 
IT Walker's List of the Ejected Clergy, Part 2, p. 402. 
L 



146 HISTORY OF CROYDOxV. 

was buried on the 12th of that month at St. 
Bride's, Fleet Street; in the register of which 
church he is styled " Parson of Croydon." 

The following anecdote of this vicar is to be 
found in Captain Smith's " Lives of Highway- 
men : — " O'Bryan, meeting with Dr. Cleiver, the 
parson of Croydon, try'd once and burnt in the 
hand at the Old Bailey for stealing a silver cup, 
coming along the road from Acton, he demanded 
his money; but the reverend doctor having not a 
farthing about him, O'Bryan was for taking his 
gown. At this our divine was much dissatisfied ; 
but, perceiving the enemy would plunder him, 
quoth he, ' Pray, Sir, let me have a chance for my 
gown;' so, pulling a pack of cards out of his pocket, 
he farther said — ' We'll have, if you please, one 
game of all-fours for it, and if you win it, take it 
and wear it.' This challenge was readily accept- 
ed by the foot-pad, but being more cunning than 
his antagonist at slipping and palming the cards, 
he won the game, and the doctor went content- 
edly home without his canonicles*. 

Henry Hughes, M.A., collated by Archbishop 
Sancroft, 26th June, 1684f ; on whose resignation 

John Caesar, M.A., was collated by the same 
archbishop, 18th January, 1688 %. There is a 
sermon preached by this vicar, 10th March, 1707, 
at the Croydon Assizes, printed 1708, where he 

* Vol. 1, p. 257. f Reg. Sancroft, fol. 404 b. 

% Ibid. 425 b 



RECTORS OF CROYDON. 147 

is styled Vicar of Croydon and Chaplain to 
Scroop Earl of Bridgewater. On his death, 

Andrew Trebeck, B.D., was collated by Arch- 
bishop Wake, 28th April, 1720. Upon whose re- 
signation, 

Nathaniel Collier, M.A., was collated by the 
same archbishop, 29th November, 1727. Upon 
whose death 

John Vade, M.A., was collated by Archbishop 
Herring, in January, 1755. He was vicar of St. 
Nicholas, Rochester. 

East Apthorp, D.D., collated by Archbishop 
Seeker^ on the death of John Vade, in June, 
1765 *. He was rector of St. Mary-le-Bow, Lon- 
don, prebend of Finsbury, and author of " Letters 
on the Prevalence of Christianity." Upon whose 
resignation 

John Ireland, D.D., was collated by Arch- 
bishop Moore, 15th July, 1793. This divine, 
who is at present Dean of Westminster, is author 
of " Five Discourses, containing certain argu- 
ments for and against the reception of Christi- 
anity by the Ancient Jews and Greeks, 1796." 
Upon whose resignation 

John Cutts Lockwood, M.A., was collated by 
Archbishop Sutton, 30th March, 1816. He was 

* Dr. Apthorp died 17th April, 1816, at Cambridge, where he had 
formerly been Fellow of Jesus' College. 

L 2 



148 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

also rector of Coulsdon, Surrey. Upon whose 
death 

Henry Lindsay, M.A., perpetual curate of 
Wimbledon, Surrey, the present vicar, was collat- 
ed by the Primate, 4th November, 1830. He 
is author of " Practical Lectures on the Histo- 
rical Books of the Old Testament." 



Incumbents of St. Mary's Chauntry. 

John Parke occurs in 1402*. Upon whose re- 
signation 

Clement Ecclestone was presented 7th August, 
1402f . He exchanged the chauntry for the rec- 
tory of Depedon, Winchester, with 

Stephen Alchon, admitted 19th September, 
1409 J. Upon whose resignation 

Robert Peterburgh was presented, 27th Fe- 
bruary, 1420§. Upon whose death 

Thomas Barfote was presented, 3rd March, 
1430 1| . Upon whose death 

William Kyng was presented, 5th March, 
1458 ^[. Upon whose death 

Thomas Thomlynson** was presented, 12th 
June, 1476. Upon whose resignation 

* Reg. Arundel, Part 1, fol. 284 a. § Reg. Chichele, Part 1, fol. 71 b. 
flbid. || Ibid. fol. 188 b. 

% Ibid. Part 2, fol. 54 b. f Reg. Bourchier, fol. 74 a. 

** Ibid. fol. 113 b. 



INCUMBENTS OF ST. MARY'S CHAUNTRY. 149 

John Knowdyson* was presented 17th Octo- 
ber, 1499. 

Edward Jenynsf occurs in 1505. Upon whose 
resignation 

Andrew CorphellJ was presented, 23rd Octo- 
ber, 1505. Upon whose death 

John Comporte§ was presented, 4th Septem- 
ber, 1538. He was the last incumbent, and had 
a pension of 61. ISs. 4<d. granted him for life, at 
the dissolution of this chauntry, 1 Edward VI. ^[; 
at which time its revenue amounted to 16/. 1*. 
2d. 



Incumbents of St. Nicholas' Chauntry. 

Henry Foxwyst**. 

Robert Smyth ff , collated by Archbishop Staf- 
ford, 30th June, 1450. 

John Gosse J J occurs in 1454. He exchanged 
this chauntry for the rectory of Grendone, Lin- 
coln, with 



* Reg. Morton, Dene, &c, fol. 168 a. J Ibid, 
t Reg. Warham, fol. 365 b. § Reg. Cran. fol. 365 b. 

1T By the statute of the 1 Edward VI. c. 14, all chauntries were 
abolished. 
** Reg. Chichele, Part 1, fol. 233 b. 
ft Reg. Stafford and Kemp, fol. 105 a. 
XX Reg. Bourchier, fol. 59 a. 



150 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

John Meyskyn*, presented 7th November, 
1454, by Richard Weldon, Esq., patron and 
founder, in right of Elizabeth his wife. 

William Walton f occurs in 1472. Upon whose 
death 

William SpynkeJ was presented 17th January, 
1472, by Richard Weldon, Esq. 

Nicholas Brooke §, presented by the same pa- 
tron, 13th August, 1474, on the resignation of 
William Spynke. Upon whose resignation 

Robert Dady|| was presented by the same pa- 
tron, 16th March, 1479. Upon whose death 

Robert Hollere^f, M.A., was presented by Eli- 
zabeth, widow of Richard Weldon, Esq., 9th Fe- 
bruary, 1487. Upon whose death 

Thomas Greene** was presented by the same 
patron, 10th October, 1591. Upon whose resig- 
nation 

John Maynellf f was presented by Robert Wel- 
don, Esq., 17th June, 1490. 

Thomas SparkeJJ occurs in 1504. Upon 
whose resignation 

Henry Molle§§ was collated by Archbishop 

* Reg. Bourchier, fol. 59 a. H Reg. Morton, Dene, &c, fol. 133 a. 

f Ibid. fol. 107 a. ** Ibid. fol. 153 b. 

J Ibid. tt Ibid- fol. 168 a. 

§ Ibid. fol. Ilia. XX Reg. Warham, fol. 322 a. 

|| Ibid. fol. 124 b. §§Ibid. 



THE CHAUNTRY OF ST. NICHOLAS. 151 

Warham, 19th December, 1504; to whom the 
right of presentation devolved, by the neglect of 
Ellen, widow of Robert Weldon, Esq., and of the 
vicar and churchwardens of Croydon, who omit- 
ted to present within the time limited by the 
founder of the said chauntry. Upon his death, 

Richard Parrer* was presented by Ellen Wel- 
don, widow, and Hugh Weldon, Esq., 31st Ja- 
nuary, 1508. Upon whose resignation 

Henry Marshallf was presented by the same 
patrons, 2nd June, 1509. Upon whose death 

William Shanke J was collated by Archbishop 
Warham; to whom the right had devolved, 19th 
October, 1521. Upon whose death 

Nicholas Sommer§ was presented by Hugh 
Weldon, Esq., 11th May, 1531. He was the 
last incumbent, and had a like grant of 61. 13s. 
4<d. for life. The income of this chauntry was 
Ul. Us. 6d. 



Croydon Church Register. 

The first Croydon register commences in 1538, 
when Cromwell, vicar-general, issued an order for 
parish registers to be kept throughout the king- 
dom. The first and second volumes are bound 
in russia leather, at the expense, it appears, of 

* Reg. Warham, fol. 334 a. J Reg. Warham, fol. 394 b\ 

f Ibid. fol. 335 a. § Ibid. fol. 404 b. 



152 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Sir Isaac Heard, Knt., Garter-King-at-Arms. 
From these documents we learn, that, from July 
20, 1603, to April 16, 1604, one hundred and 
fifty-eight persons died of the plague at Croy- 
don. In 1625, the number amounted to seven- 
ty-six; in the following year to twenty-four; and 
in 1631, to seventy- four. From July 27, 1665, to 
March 22, 1666, one hundred and forty-one per- 
sons died of this pestilence. 

The following miscellaneous items are arranged 
according to their respective dates: — 

June 10, 1552. Alexander Barckley, sepult*. 

Anno dni 1560. Syr Wyllm Coke, clerke, vicar of Croydon, was 
buryed the xxvij day of Marche. 

1563. January. Mr. Wyllm Heron, justice, was buryed the x day 
of January. 

1568. Syr Nicholas Heron, Knight, deceased the fyrst day of 
September, and was buried the v day of the same month. 

1578. Lady Mary Heron [widow of Sir Nicholas] was buryed the 
xx day of April!, and her funerall was made the xxiiij day of Aprill. 

1578. This Candlemas was the great snowe. 

1581. Richard Ffinche, clerke, vycar of the paroyche churche of 
Croydon, was buryed the ixth day of Aprill, anno dni 1581 mo , regni 
Eliz. 23tio. 

Edmunde Grindall, L. Archbishop of Canterburie, deceased the vj 
day of Julye, and was buried the fyrste day of Auguste, anno dni 
1583, and anno regni Elizabethan, 25. 

In his will he ordered his body to be buried 
" in the choir of the parish church of Croydon, 
without any solemn herse or funeral pomp." 

* For an account of this celebrated writer, vide ante, pp. 21 and 22. 



THE CHURCH REGISTER. 153 

1584. Bonaventure Ryder, travelynge between Wonswthe and 
Croydon, was found dead in Waddon mill, upon the xxv day of 
Julye, and was buried the iiij day of August abovesayd. 

Elizabeth, the daughter of John Kynge and Clemence, (wyfe of 
Samuell Ffynche [primus], vycar, by the space of vij yeares), mo- 
ther of v children at severall byrthes, of the age of xxj yeares; de- 
ceased the xvijth day of November, and was buryed the xviijth, 
anno dni 1589.. 

Memoranda. — That whereas Samuell Ffynche, vicar of Croydon, 
lycensed Clemence Kinge, the wyfe of John Kynge, brewer, to eate 
fleshe in the time of Lente, by reason of her sicknesse, wch lycence 
beareth date the xxixth day of Ffebruary ; and further, that she the 
sayde Clemence doth as yet contynue sicke, and hath not recovered 
her health; Knowe ye therfor, that the sayde lycence continueth 
still in force, and for the more efficacie therof, ys here registered ac- 
cordinge to the statute, in the psence of Thomas Mosar, church- 
Avarden of the said parishe of Croydon, the vijth day of Marche, in 
the xxxviij year of the Queene's ma ts moste gracious reigne, and for 
the registeringe therof ther is paid unto the curate ivd. 

A like licence was granted by the same vicar 
to Susan Weller of Croydon, on the 25th March, 
1598. 

John Whitgifte, Archbishop of Canterburie, deceased at Lambith 
on Wednesday, at viiij of the clocke in the eveninge, beinge the laste 
day of February, and was brought the day followinge in the even- 
inge to Croydon, and was buried the morninge followinge, by two of 
the clocke, in the chappell where his pore people doe usuallie sitte; 
his ffunerall was kepte at Croydon, the xxvijth day of Marche fol- 
lowinge, anno dni 1604, anno, regni dni nri Regis Jacobi Secundo. 

His funeral was performed with great solem- 
nity, the Earl of Worcester and Lord Zouch 
bearing the pall, and Dr. Babyngton, Bishop of 
Worcester, preaching the funeral sermon from 
the following text: — " But Jehoiada waxed old, 
and was full of days, and died. An hundred and 



154 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

thirty years old was he when he died. And they 
buried him in the city of David, with the kings, 
because he had done good in Israel, and towards 
God and his house." 

December, 1607. The greatest ffrost began ye ixth day of this 
month. Ended on Candlemas-eve. 

1608. Mychaell Murgatrode, Esquire, deceased at London the x 
day, and was buried at Croydon on the xii day of Aprill, anno dni 
1608. 

This gentleman was fellow of Jesus College, 
Cambridge, and secretary to Archbishop Whitgift*. 

Ffrancis Tyrrell, citizen and marchante of London, was buried 
the first day of September, 1609, and his fFunerall was kept at Lon- 
don the xiijth of the same month. He gave two hundred poundes 
to the parishioners of Croydon, to builde them a newe market house, 
and ffortie pounds to repaire our churche, and ffortie shillings a yeare 
to our pore of Croydon, for xiij years, withe manie other good and 
greate legacyes to the citie of London. 

Charles Howarde, sonne unto the Righte Honourable Charles 
Earle of Nottingham, borne the xxvth daye of December, anni dni 
1610, was christened the xxiijd daye of January followinge. 

This Charles Howard was the only son of the 
Lord Admiral, by his second wife, Lady Marga- 
ret Stewart, daughter of James Earl of Moray, 
and became third and last Earl of Nottingham. 
He married Arabella, daughter of Edward Smith, 
Esq., and died 26th April, 1681. 

October, 1616. Samuel Finch [secundus], vicar of Croydon, was 
"buried the 15th day, 

* Among the Harl. MSS. (No. 67) is a volume labeled " Mur- 
getrodi et Bell. Orat. et Epist." The title of the oration is — " De 
Graecarum Disciplinarum Laudibus Oratio, quam apud Jesuanos 
auditores suos habuit;" and inscribed Mich. Murg. 



THE CHURCH — REGISTER. 155 

George Abbot, Lord Arcbbisbop of Cant., deceased at Croydon 
upon the fourth day of August, 1633. His funerall was with great 
solemnity kept in the church here, upon the third day of Septemb. 
following, and the next day his corpse was convaide to Guilford, and 
there buryed, according to his will. 

1643. May 12. Sir Hugh Wirrall, knight, was buried. 

1649. March 29. My Lady Scudamore buried. 

Lady Scudamore was aunt to the patriot Hamp- 
den,, and to Edmund Waller, the poet. 

1650. February. S r John Tonstall was buryed. 

1651. February. My lady Tonstall was buryed. 

1667. John Davenante, Cytizen of London, was buried the xxviijth 
day of October. 

This John Davenant, of the same family as 
the celebrated Sir William D'Avenant, was fa- 
ther to John Davenant, D.D., Bishop of Salis- 
bury. 

1677. November 16. Gelbert Sheldon, laite Archbishop of Can- 
terbury, buryed. 

Archbishop Sheldon was buried in a private 
manner, according to his express order. 

Dr. William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, died at his palace 
at Lambeth, Jan. 24, 1736, and was brought to Croydon, and buried 
Feb. 9; and his lady, which was buried at Lambeth the April 1731, 
was taken up and brought to Croydon the next day, and put in the 
vault with him. 

Dr. John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury, was buried Oct. 27th, 
1747. 

1749, August 30. James Cooper, a highwayman, was executed 
on a gibet in Smithden Bottom, and their hanged in chains, for mur- 
dering and robing of Robert Saxby, groom to John How, Esqr. of 
Barrowgreen in the parish of Oxteed in Surry, on the 17th of March, 
1749, near Crome Hurste. 



156 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

The following lines, preserved by Ducarel, who 
had not met with the name of the murdered man, 
or the circumstances, were formerly on a rail in 
the church-yard: — 

Thou shalt do no murder, nor shalt thou steal, 
Are the commands Jehovah did reveal; 
But thou, O wretch ! who, without fear or dread 
Of thy tremendous Maker, shot me dead, 
Amidst my strength and sin — hut, Lord, forgive, 
As I, through boundless mercies, hope to live ! 

Dr. Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury, died at his palace 
at Croydon, and was buried Mar. 24, 1757. 

He was buried in a very private manner, ac- 
cording to his own request, which expressly for- 
bad that any monument should be raised to his 
memory. 



Monuments and Epitaphs in the Church. 

Middle Chancel. 

On the south side of the altar, on a sarcopha- 
gus within an arched recess, the entablature of 
which is supported by Corinthian columns, lies the 
painted effigies of a churchman in his scarlet 
robes. Surmounting the entablature are three 
shields of arms, viz. centre shield, the arms of 
the see of Canterbury empaling quarterly or and 
a%. } a cross quartered erm. and or, between four 
pea-hens collared and countercharged; dexter 
shield, the arms of the see of York; sinister 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 157 

shield, the arms of the see of London, both em- 
paling the same. Beneath his effigies are these 
verses : — 

Grindall' doctus, prudens, gravitate verendus, 
Justus, munificus, sub cruce fortis erat. 

Post cruris aerumnas Christi gregis Anglia fecit 
Signiferum, Christus ccelica regna dedit. 

In memoria aeterna erit Justus. — Psal. cxii. 

At the top of the monument — 

Beati mortui qui in Dno moriuntur : 
Requiescunt enim a, laborious suis . 
Et opera illorum sequuntur illos. 
Apoc. 14. 

Under the above are the two following verses in 
juxtaposition — 

Praesulis eximii ter postquam est auctus honore, 
Pervigiliq greges rexit moderamine sacros : 
Confectum senio durisq laborious, ecce 
Transtulit in placidam Mors exoptata quietem. 

Mortua marmoreo conduntur membra sepulchro 
Sed mens sancta viget, Fama perennis erit, 

Nam studia et Musae, quas magnis censibus auxit, 
Grindali nomen tempus in omne ferent. 

And immediately above the effigies is this in- 
scription : — 

Edmund' Grindall' Cumbriensis, Tlieol' D', Eruditione, Pru- 
dentia, et Gravitate clarus; Constantia, Justitia, et Pietate in- 
signis, civibus et peregrinis charus; ab exilio (quod Evangelii 
causa subiit) reversus ad summum dignitatis fastigium (quasi de- 
cursu honorum) sub R. Elizabetha evectus, Ecclesiam Londinen. 
primum, deinde Eborac. demu. Cantuarien. rexit. Et cum jam hie 
nihil restaret quo altius ascenderet, e corporis vinculis liber ac bea- 
tus ad ccelum evolavit 6° Julii an. Dni 1533. iEtatis suae 63. Hie, 
praeter multa pietatis officia quae vivus praestitit, moribundus maxi- 



158 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

ma. bonorum suorum partem piis usibus consecravit. In Paraecia 
Divae Beghae (ubi natus est) Scbolam Grammatic. splendide extrui 
et opimo censu ditari curavit. Magdalenensi ccetui Cantabr. (in 
quo puer primum Academise ubera suxit) discipulum adjecit, Colle- 
gio Christi (ubi adultus Kris, incubuit) gratum Mv^/x-oo-yvov reliquit; 
Aulae Pembrochinse (cujus olim Socius, postea Praefectus, extitit) iEra- 
rium & Bibliotbecam auxit, Graecoq. Praelectori, uni Socio, ac duo- 
bus Discipulis, ampla stipendia assignavit. Collegium Reginae Oxon. 
(in quod Cumbrienses potissimum cooptantur) nummis, libris et 
magnis proventibus locupletavit. Civitati Cantuar. (cui moriens 
praefuit) centu. libras, in hoc, ut pauperes honestis artificiis exerce- 
rentur, perpetuo servandas, atq. impendendas dedit. Residuum bo- 
noru. Pietatis operibus dicavit. Sic vivens moriensq. Eccliae, Patriae 
et bonis literis profuit. 

To the west of Archbishop Grindall's monu- 
ment, above the door, is a neat white marble tab- 
let, inscribed — 

This Tablet is erected 
To the memory of the Rev d . Joseph Scaife, B.A., late of Queen's 
College, Oxford, and of Birkby in the county of Cumberland. He 
served for two years previous to his death the curacy of this pa- 
rish, and in so exemplary a manner as to gain the esteem of 
many friends, who are desirous thus to record his worth and their 
affectionate remembrance of him. 

His mortal remains are deposited at Bidborough in the county of 
Kent, near which place he died March 9, 1819, aged 26. 

On the north side of the altar, within separate 
recessed arches, and flanked and divided by a 
Corinthian column, are the painted effigies of a 
man and woman kneeling before desks. Above 
the entablature are three shields of arms, viz. 
centre shield, quarterly 1 and 4 erm. a millrind 
sa., 2 per pale a%. and gu., three lions ramp. 
erm, 3 or in a bordar engr. sa., a saltire gu. be- 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 159 

tween four pears of the last; dexter shield, erm. 
a chev. gu. ; sinister shield, gu. on a fesse ingr. 
arg., three cross pattee's sa. } between three wa- 
terbougets or. 
Over the man is this inscription: — 

Obiit 21 Jana 1573, set. suae 69. 

Over the woman — 

Obiit 2 Aug. 1585, aet. suae . . 

Under the man is this inscription, in capitals: — 

Heare lyeth buried the Corps 

Of Maister Henrie Mill 

Citezen and Grocer of 

London famous Cittie 

Alderman and sometyme Shrive. 

A man of prudent Skill, 

Charitable to the Poore, 

And alwaies full of pittie. 

Whose Soule wee hope dothe rest in 

Blise, wheare Joy dothe stil abounde 

Thoughe bodie his full depe do lie 

In earthe here under grounde. 

Under the woman — 

Elizabeth Mill his lovinge wyf 
Lyeth also buried heare 
Whoe sixtene Children did him beare 
The blessing of the Lorde, 
Eight of them sonnes, and the other 8 
Weare daughters. This is cleare 
A witnes sure of mutuall love 
And signe of greate accorde. 
Whose Sole amonge the Patryarks 
In faithfull Abram's brest, 
Thoughe bodie hirs be wrapt in clay , 
We hope in joye dothe rest. 

At the bottom of the tomb — 

Ano. Dni 1575. 



160 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Immediately above the last-mentioned tomb, 
on a handsome white marble tablet : — 

To the memory of 

Nicholson Dundas Anderson, 

Son of the late Robert Anderson, Esq., Superintendant of the Honb le . 

E. I. Company s Marine, at Bombay, 

And a Student of the College at Addiscombe, 

Who was drowned in the Croydon Canal 

On the 29th day of Augst. 1818, in the 16th year of his age. 

Whilst an ingenious disposition endeared him to his associates, 
the high character which he uniformly sustained for exemplary con- 
duct and assiduous application held out the fairest hopes that his 
career in life (had its continuance been vouchsafed to him) would 
have proved a constant source of happiness and distinction to him- 
self, and of comfort and satisfaction to his relations. But the Al- 
mighty hath willed it otherwise. 

Reader — doubt not his wisdom or goodness even in this bitter 
dispensation. May he not have dealt graciously with his servant, 
by removing him to a better world, before his bright prospects in 
this life had been darkened by disappointment, or his integrity had 
fallen a prey to its corruptions. 

To the east of the last, on a black marble tab- 
let, supported by two Corinthian columns, and 
bearing the following arms — gu. a chev. ingr. 
between three estoils arg., is this inscription: — 

Here lyes the Body of John Pynsent, Esqr. 

One of the Prothonotaries of his Majesties 

Court of Comon- Pleas, who departed this 

life the 29th of August 1668. 

The meanest part of him is only told 
In this Inscription, as this Tombe doth hold 
His worser part, & both these easily may 
In length of time consume and weare away ; 
His Virtue doth more lasting honours give. 
Virtue and Virtuous souls for ever live : 



THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 161 

This doth embaulme our dead beyonde the art 
Proud -Egypt used of old ; his head & heart 
Prudence and pietie enricht, his hand 
Justice and charity did still command; 
He was the churche's and the poore man's freind ; 
Wealth got by Law, the Gospell taught to spend. 
From hence he learnt that w l is sent before 
Of our estates doth make us rich farr more, 
Than what we leave, and therefore did hee send 
Greate portions weekly ; thus did he commend 
His faith by workes; in heaven did treasure lay; 
Which to possess his soule is cald away : 
Here only is reserved his precious dust, 
Untill the resurrection of the just. 

" Blessed are the Dead that dye in the Lord; they rest 
from their Labours, and their works doe follow them." 
— Rev. xiv. 13. 

On the Ground. 

On a brass plate, under the figure of a priest 

praying, in the centre of the chancel : — 

Silbester (frabriel, ntjus lapis iju tegit ossa, 

Uera sacerttotum gloria nupcr erat, 
Xcgis nemo £arre Bibina bolumina bcrbis 

©larius, ant btta santtius cxpliatit. 
©otmnus ergo Bcu. motto fclix, cminus almis 

^cm. pins in scriptis bitterat ante, bittet. 

'Snno ttni J^lillimo b.xb. Hi), ttie ©rtobr. bita est funct. 
Adjoining the last, on the south — 

Here lieth Mary, the Widow of Robert Mackett, Esq., who 
died 22nd August, 1786, aged 83. 

Adjoining the last, on the south, on a black 
marble ledger — 

M 



162 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Here lie the remains of Hannah Smith, widow of the Rev. 
John Smith, Rector of Carlton in Norfolk. She died on the 6th 
April, 1794, in the ninetieth year of her age. 

Also, the remains of Paulina Smith, her daughter, who died 
15th January, 1813, aged 78. 

To the north of Silvester Gabriel, on a black 
marble ledger — 

Maria Dautrive, 

Fil, natu min. 

Danielis Richard de Waddon, 

Ob. vn Feb. mdcclxxxviii. 

Mt. xxxi. 

To the north of the last, on a black marble 
ledger, with arms erm. on a bend gu., three es- 
quires' helmets — 

Here lies interred the body of Mr. Joseph Williams, citizen and 
grocer of London, who died the 15th of June, 1756, aged 57 years. 

To the west of the last is a brass plate affixed to 
a rough grave-stone, with arms a%. a chev. be- 
tween five escallops in chief and one in base, arg., 
with a crescent for difference, empaling cheque 
arg. and a%., a fesse of the last, with a crescent 
for difference — 

Here lyeth buried the body of Nicholas Hatcher, 

of Croydon, in the County of Surry, Gentleman, 

Who was Captaine of a Troop of Horse under his 

Most Sacred Majestie King Charles the First, 

and Yeoman-Usher in ordinary to his Majestie 

King Charles the Second. 

Who departed this life the 29th of September, 

in the year of our Lord God, 1673, 

aged 69 years. 



THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 163 

To the west of Silvester Gabriel, on a large 
black marble ledger — 

Alexander Caldcleugh, Esq. 

of Broad Green, 

departed this life 

January 18, 1809, aged 55 years. 

Elizabeth, Daughter of the above, 
and Wife of William Plasket, Esq. 

of Old Burlington Street, 
died the 24th day of November, 1832. 

At the bottom of the ledger — 

This is the family vault, 

To the north of the last, on a black marble 
ledger — 

Daniel Richard, Esq. of Waddon, died ix December, 
mdccxciii. Aged lxxvii. 

At the head of Caldcleugh are the five follow- 
ing inscriptions on separate ledgers, commenc- 
ing southward : — 

On a black marble ledger — 

Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Moulton (relict of 
James Moulton, Gent.), who died February 10, 1772, aged 67 
years. 

On a like ledger- 
Here lyeth the body of James Moulton, Gent., 
Who died the 5th of October, 1761, aged 59 years, 
Deservedly esteemed. 
His extensive Liberality to the poor 
Was an amiable example to the wealthy, 
And his death a real Loss 
To the aged and indigent. 

m2 



164 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

On a Portland stone ledger — 

. Here lyeth the body of Thomas Wood, (youngest son of John 

Wood, senr., late of Woddon, by Arabella his wife), who died a 

bachelor Nov. the 8th, 1757, in the 47th year of his age. 

To whose memory this stone is placed, 

by Elizabeth (the wife of 

James Moulton, Gentleman) 

his sister and sole heiress. 

On a Portland stone ledger — 

Here lieth interred the body of John Wood of Waddon, senr., 
who departed this life February the 28th, 1738, in the 69th year of 
his age. 

And also, Arabella Wood, wife of the abovesaid John Wood, 
who departed this life October the 9th, 1757, in the 84th year of 
her age. 

Also, Thomas Wood, son of John and Arabella Wood, who 
departed this life November the 8th, 1757, in the^47th year of his 
age. 

On a Portland stone ledger — 

Here lieth interred the body of Arabella Wood, daughter of 
John and Arabella Wood, of Waddon, who died February the 8th, 
1738, aged 35 years. 

And also the body of John Wood, son of the abovesaid John 
and Arabella Wood, who departed this life the 9th of April, 1736, 
aged 32 years. 

Near the entrance to the middle aisle, to the 
south, on a brass plate, beneath the indents of a 
cross, between a kneeling figure and a shield* — 

* The arms on this tomb, recovered from a MS. in the Lansdowne 
Collection, were gu. two wings conjoined in lure, the tips down- 
wards, or. Over all, a label of three points. 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 165 

J>u jw£t lEgifcitts S^mor, qui ofcitt xxij tJte 
fcccembr. a. tint nucclxxxx tuV a«. pptcut. fcs. 

To the south of the last, on a rough ledger — 

In memory of Richard Poore, Esquire, late of the Island of 

Jamaica in the West Indies, who died the 21st of August, 1788, aged 

52 years. 

Tho' I my God have oft offended, 

May I by Christ be recommended 

To thy great mercy and thy love, 

To live with thee in heaven above. 

At the foot of the last, on a black marble 
ledger, with arms, a chev. between three eagles' 
heads erased, in an escutcheon of pretence, three 
tufts of grass, empaling the same — 

Here lieth the body of Mr. James Pettit, late of Combe, in 
this parish, Gent., who departed this life the 7th of March, 1724, 
aged 64. 

In the north corner of the chancel, on a black 
marble ledger 

In memory of Margaret Lee, who died 18th July, 1787, aged 2 
years and 7 months. 

Also, Mary Lee died August 18th, 1793, aged 8 years and 10 
months. 

St. Mary's Chancel. 

On the east wall is a beautiful monument of 
white marble, sculptured by the late John Flax- 
man, R.A., representing an angel bearing up a 
female. Above the figures are these words: — 

Thus 

shall the good be received 

into life everlasting. 



166 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Under — 

Sacred to the Memory of 

Ann, 

The heloved wife of James Bowling, 

of the Borough of Southwark, 

(and Daughter of the late Mr. James Harris, of this place), 

who, after five days illness only, 

exchanged this life for a better on the 26 April, 1 808, 

in the 25 year of her age. 

Bright excellence, with every virtue fraught, 
Such may we be by thy example taught; 
Pure in the eye of heaven like thee appear, 
Should we this hour death's awful summons hear; 
Like thee, all other confidence disown, 
And, looking to the cross of Christ alone, 
In meekness tread the paths thy steps have trod, 
And find, with thee, acceptance from our God. 

Her husband, under the strongest bonds of affection, has caused 
this monument to be erected in testimony of his everlasting regard 
and gratitude to a most affectionate wife, and kind friend. 

On a white marble tablet, to the north of the 
last, is this inscription: — 

In the family vault, near this place, are deposited the remains of 
Samuel Marsh, Esq., of Bellemont House, near Uxbridge in the 
county of Middlesex, who died March 18, 1795, aged 78 years. His 
affectionate widow has caused this monument to be erected to his 
memory. 

On a like tablet, by the side of the last — 

To the memory of Captain John Marsh, of the 66th regiment, 
who died Feb. 27, 1798, aged 21 years. Also to the memory of 
Frances Elizabeth Marsh, widow of the late Samuel Marsh, Esq., of 
Bellemont House, who died October 27, 1811, aged 64 years. 

In the north-east corner, on a raised tomb, 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 167 

formerly railed in, are the indents of a figure and 
two shields. On a brass plate under the figure 

is the following inscription: — 

@rat£ pro anuria lEIpe Babu, nuper Cibis Sc Jtecert 

I'ontiort, qui obiit tit] "Oic mens' JBccEtnfcris, ^Inno JBni 

JBiirimo caclb. cujus animc propuutur iBcus. Qmzn. 

Above this tomb, on the north wall, is the fol- 
lowing inscription on a brass plate: — 

Heare lyes y e body of y* precious servant 
of God, Mr. Samuel Otes, Master of Arts & 

Minister of the worde in Croydon, whose 

Piety, Zeale, & Selfdenyal, are the best Mo- 

-nument of his Worth : whose blessed memery 

lives & need not words to preserve it. he was 

placed there A . 1643, & deceased A°. 1645, aged 30 

yeares, Having lived long, though he dyed young. 

R (admire & learne) B. 

To the west of the last is a large white tomb, 
ascended by three steps, bearing the figures of a 
man in armour, in alto relievo, kneeling before a 
desk, attended by his five sons, and a woman in 
the same manner, attended by eight daughters. 
Over the heads of the women are these initials: — 

K. A. M. S. E. A. M. E. M. 

Between the figures — 

Anno Domini 1568. 

Over the heads of the men — 

H. w. T. I. p. N. 

At the bottom of the tomb is this inscription: — 

Tumulus Nicholai Herone, Equitis, sepulti primo die Septem, 



168 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

The arms on this tomb are — centre shield, 
quarterly — 1, a chev. charged with three cinque- 
foils between three herons (for Heron); 2, two 
bendlets; 3, a fesse between three boars' heads, 
couped; 4, a chev. engrailed between three 
bugle horns stringed. Empaling 1 and 4, 
semme of fleur de lis, a lion ramp., charged on 
the breast with an annulet; 2, a chev. between 
three stags' heads cabossed; 3, three martlets. 
Dexter shield — quarterly: 1 and 4, semme of fleur 
de lis, a lion ramp., as above ; 2, a chev. between 
three stags' heads cabossed; 3, three martlets. 
Sinister shield — quarterly: 1 and 4, Heron; 2, 
two bendlets; 3, a fesse between three boars' 
heads couped. 

On the Ground. 
Near the entrance of this chancel, from the 
middle chancel, is a rough ledger, with this in- 
scription : — 

Elizabeth Butler, the wife 
of Francis Butler, Esquire, 
was buryed Novemb. 26, 

1626. 

The said Francis Butler, 

Esquire, was buryed the 

4th of June, 1648. 

Adjoining the last, on the north, is a black 
marble ledger, with these arms — sa. on a fesse or, 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 169 

between three bugle horns stringed arg., a de- 
mi-lion naisant gu. between two pheons a%., em- 
paling gu. a chev. or, between three lions ramp. 
arg. — and the following inscription : — 

Here lye the body of Thomas Johnson, senr. (late of this parish, 
and vintner of London), obiit 16 Feb. 1726, set. 56. 

Also John Johnson, his brother, ob* 14 April, 1721, set. 52. 

And of John, son of the said Thomas Johnson, obiit 24 July, 1723, 
set. 16. 

By the side of the last, on a black marble 
ledger- M g 

Subtus 

In spe Beatse Resurrectionis 

Requiescunt Exuviae 

Ann-e Eyres Viduse, 

Relictse Thomas Eyres, M.D. 

Quae 

Obijt, 2° die Martij, A° D* 1717°, 

iEtatis suae 78. 

Matrona Bona, Justa et Pia. 

In cujus perpetuam ac gratam memoriam 

Hoc Marmor 

Johannes Eyres Filius natu maximus 

Moerens Posuit. 

Adjoining the last are the indents of the figures 
of a man and woman. 

At the foot of Johnson, on a black marble 
ledger — 

Elizabeth, the wife of George Elcock, Citizen and Draper of 
London, departed this life the first of July, 1648. 

Likewise the body of George Elcock, husband to the said Eliza- 
beth, who departed this life the 8th of August, 1657. 



170 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Adjoining the last, to the north, within the 
rails inclosing the Font, on a Portland stone 
ledger — 

Here lyeth the body of Mr. Charles Westgarth, of Unthank, in 
the county of Durham, who departed this life the first of July, 1733, 
aged 35 years. 

By the side of the last, within the rails, is a 
white ledger, with arms a%., a cross of lozenges 
or, on a chief gu. a leopard passant gardant 
of the second spotted sa., holding in his dex- 
ter paw a fleur de lis of the second, empaling 
a fesse coticed between three cats. The inscrip- 
tion, which is concealed by the font, commemo- 
rates — 

Benjamin Delaund, who died June 19, 1753, aged 79; Marga- 
ret Delaund, who died January 2, 1714, aged 78; and Richard 
Delaund, who died 

By the side of the last, and also within the 
rails, on a black marble ledger — 

Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Ann Callant, widow, eldest daugh- 
ter of Thomas Morton, Esq. (of Whitehouse), who departed this life 
the 11th of February, 1735, in the 72nd year of her age. 

Here lyeth the body of Jane Callant, the wife of Robert Cal- 
lant; ob* the 29th of October, 1736, aged 52 years. 

Also Martha, second wife of the s d Robert Callant; ob* Sept. 
ye 28th, 1741, setatis 45. 

Also the body of Robert Callant, who died y e 7th February, 
1764, aged 72 years. 

Adjoining the last, by the wall, on a white 
marble ledger, with arms or a lion ramp, regard- 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 171 

ant sa., empaling quarterly gu. and erm. in dexter 
chief and sinister base, a goat's head erased arg. 
attired or. 

Here lyeth 

the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Price, 

Wife of Herbert Price, of y e County 

of Hereford, Gent., and Daughter to 

Thomas Morton, of White-Horse, 

in this Parish, Esqr., who departed this 

life the 15th day of February, in y 35 

yeare of her age, 1 70|. 

Also near this place lyeth three of 

their Children (viz.) Jane, Susanna, 

and Thomas Price. 

Charo viro et natis vixit; Charissimo Christo 
Vivat, et seterne huic pax sit et alta quies. 

At the head of the last is the indent of a 
figure, with labels issuing from its mouth. 

Adjoining the last, to the west, on a Portland 
stone — 

Also of Mrs. Frances Hutchinson, died 19th July, 1825, aged 
84 years. 

Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like 
stone — 

C. B. Apthorp, aged in months xin days, died ix October, 

MDCCLXVI. 

Miss Catherine Hutchinson, died January 22, mdcclxxvii, in 
the xxivth year of her age. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Apthorp, born March 2, mdccxli, died January 
28, mdcclxxxii. 



172 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson, eldest daughter of Lieut. Gen. Will. 
Shirley, died March 22, mdccxc, aged lx. 

William Hutchinson, Esq., born at Boston, in America, died 
8th February, 1797, aged 54 years. He was a man of strict probity 
and true honour, and a zealous, faithful friend, an aifable and kind 
relation, and a worthy member of the Established Church. He en- 
tertained the highest and most uniform principles of loyalty, to 
which he sacrificed his private interest. As agent to the Island of 
Antigua, and in other public stations, his conduct received the full- 
est approbation. He merited and enjoyed universal esteem. 

Before the tomb of Sir Nicholas Heron, on a 
black marble ledger, is this inscription: — 

Here lyes y e body of 
Morren Harbin, Citizen & 

Dyer of London, who 

departed this Life y« 22th of 

October, ano. Dom. 1680, 

aged 55 yeares : 

Fourteen days before whose 

death, Hellen his wife departed 

this life, aged 44 years, 

and lieth both here interred. 

Adjoining the last, on a like stone — 

Here lyeth the body of 

Edmond the Sone of Morren Harbin, 

and Hellen his wife, who departed 

this life the 8th day of July, 

Anno Domini, 1682, 
in the 19th year of his age. 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 173 

St. Nicholas' Chauntry. 

On the east wall is a monument, bearing, un- 
der a recessed arch, the effigies of a man in a 
black gown, kneeling before a desk; and these 
arms — arg. three crosses patee, ends fleury gu. 
each charged with five bezants; in a canton 
of the second, a conger's head couped in pale or. 
— Crest, a lion's jamb erect and erased or, hold- 
ing a like cross and bezant fitchey. Motto, 
" Meliora manent." Over his head is this in- 
scription — 

Ossa Michaelis sunt hie sita 

Murgatroidi. Da, pia posteritas, 

vere quiete cubent. 

Beneath his feet, on a black marble tablet, is 
this inscription — 

Michael Murgatroid Eboracensis, Richardi Gascoigni armigeri 
alumnus, olim Collegii Jesu apud Cantabrigienses socius, postea Jo- 
hanni Whitgift Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi ab epistolis, inde ejus fa- 
miliae Censor sive Contrarotulator, denique Dispensator sive Senes- 
callus, et ad Facilitates in alma Curia Cantuariensi Commissiarius : 
vixit annis 56, mensibus 4, diebus 12; obiit tertio die Aprilis, anno 
salutis humanse 1608. 

On a monument in the south-east corner, 
greatly resembling that of Archbishop Grindall's, 
is the recumbent effigies of a churchman in 
sable robes, with his hands in the act of prayer. 
The arms on this tomb are — Centre shield, the 



174 HISTORY OF CROYDON. .. 

arms of the see of Canterbury, empaling arg. on 
a cross fleury gu. five bezants: dexter shield, 
the arms of the see of Worcester ; sinister shield, 
the arms of the deanery of Lincoln, both em- 
paling the same. On the sarcophagus are the 
arms of the see of Lincoln, the colleges of Tri- 
nity, Pembroke, and Peter-house. 

At the top of the monument is the following 
inscription*: — 

Post tenebras spero lucem. 

Above the figure — 

Whitgifta Eborum Grimsbeia ad littora nomen 
Whitgifta emisit. Fcelix hoc nomine Grimsbei. 
Hinc natus, non natus ad hanc mox mittitur hospes 
Londinum. inde novam te, Cantabrigia, matrem 
Insequitur, supraq. fidem suavi ubere crescit. 
Petro fit socius, Pembro,- Triadiq. magister, 
Fitq. Pater matri, Cathedraeq. Professor utriq. 
E Cathedra Lincolna suum petit esse Decanum, 
Mox Wigorn petit esse suum, fit Episcopus illic : 
Proprseses Patriae, quo nunquam acceptior alter. 
Post annos plus sex summum petit Anglia patrem ; 
Plusquam bis denos fuit Archiepiscopus annos. 
Charior Elizae dubium est, an Regi Jacobo : 
Consul utriq. fuit. Sis tu Croidonia testis 
Pauperibus quam charus erat, queis nobile struxit 
Hospitium, puerisq. scholam, dotemq. reliquit. 
Ccelibis haec vitas soboles quas nata per annos 
Septuaginta duos nullo enumerabitur aevo. 

* The inscriptions on this tomb were written by Dr. Benjamin 
Charior, one of his Grace's chaplains. 






THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 175 

Invidia haec cernens moritur, Patientia vincens 
Ad summum evecto aeternum dat lumen lionori. 

A little lower, the two following verses, in juxta- 
position — 

Magna Senatoris sunt nomina, pondera & aequa 
Nominibus, quern non utraq. juncta premunt? 

Prsesulis accedat si summi nomen ad ista 
Pondera quis ferat, aut perferat ilia diu? 

Pax vivo grata est, mens recti conscia pacem 
Fert animo, haec mortem non metuisse dedit. 

Mors requiem membris, animae ccelestia donant 
Gaudia ; sic potuit vincere qui patitur. 

Beneath the figure — 

Gratia non miro, si fit divina Johannis 

Qui jacet hie solus credito gratus erat. 
Nee magis immerito Whitgiftus dicitur idem; 

Candor in eloquio, pectore candor erat. 
Candida pauperibus posuit loca Candida Musis : 

E terris moriens Candida dona tulit. 

Adjoining the last, on the south wall, is a tomb, 
which is presumed to commemorate Thomas 
Warham, Esq., who died at Haling, 1478, and 
who ordered his body to be buried in the chapel 
of St. Nicholas, before the image of our Lady of 
Pite. The tomb, which is inserted in the wall, 
is divided at its base into three quatrefoil panels, 
each containing a shield of arms — viz. centre 
shield, quarterly, 1 and 4, gu. a fesse or, in chief 
a goat's head couped arg., attired of the second; 
in base three escollops of the third, with a mul- 
let sa. for difference, all within a bordure of the 



176 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

third, for Warham; 2 and 3, two bars: dexter 
shield, Warham: sinister shield, two bars em- 
paling the same. Over the tomb is an abstrusely 
pointed arch, surmounted by a richly sculptured 
cornice; above which, on the wall, is a shield 
with mantling and helmet, bearing the arms of 
Warham, and two bars quarterly; but the crest 
(an armed arm holding a sword) has disappeared. 
Crowning the angular pillars flanking the arch, 
are two shields of arms, viz. 1, Warham ; 2, two 
bars, as before. The soffit of the arch is divided 
into trefoil headed panels, and in its recess are 
the indents of the figures of a man and woman 
kneeling, with labels issuing from their mouths ; 
which, with every other inscription, have been sa- 
crilegiously torn away, probably during the Re- 
bellion. On this tomb are two helmets. 

Adjoining the last is the well-known monu- 
ment of Archbishop Sheldon, representing the 
recumbent effigies of the prelate in his archi epis- 
copal robes and mitre. His left hand sustains 
his head, and in his right is a crosier. The 
figure is of statuary marble, and is beautifully 
sculptured. In the panels of the black marble 
altar tomb on which the archbishop reposes, is 
some finely carved osteology. Above the figure 
is the following inscription, surmounted by two 
cherubs supporting a shield of arms — viz. arg. 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. I 77 

on a chev. gu., three sheldrakes of the first on 
a canton of the second, a rose of the last, em- 
paled by the arms of the see of Canterbury. 
Motto, " Fortiter et Suaviter*". 

Hie jacet 

Gilbertus Sheldon 

antique Sheldoniorum familia 

In agro Staffordiensi natus, 

Oxonii 

bonis literis enutritus, 

S. S^ Theologiae Doctor insignis; 

Coll. Omnium Animarum Custos prudens et fidelis, 

Academise Cancellarius Munificentissimus, 

Regii Oratorii Clericus, 

Car. I mo B mo Martyri Charissimus; 

sub Serenissimo R. Carolo II do , 

mdclx, magno illo Instaurationis anno, 

Sacelli Palatini Decanus, 

Londinensis Episcopus; 

mdclxii, in Secretions Concilii ordinem 

cooptatus ; 

mdclxiii, ad dignitatis Archiepiscopalis apicem 

evectus. 

Vir 

Omnibus Negotiis Par, omnibus Titulis Superior, 

In Rebus adversis Magnus, in prosperis Bonus, 

Utriusque Fortune Dominus; 

Pauperum Parens, 

Literatorum Patronus, 

EcCLESIiE STATOR. 

* This splendid monument, so universally admired, which Evelyn 
terms " of a stately ordnance," and estimates its cost at from 700/. 
to 800/., was the work of Joseph Latham, the city mason, and was 
entirely finished by English workmen, circa 1683. — Vide the Pre- 
sent State of England, 1683, p. 152. 

N 



178 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

De tanto Viro 

Pauca dicere non expedit, Multa non opus est; 

Norunt Prjesentes, Posteri vix credent: 

Octogenarius 

Animam Piam et Ccelo Maturam 

Deo reddidit 

v Id. ix B ris 

MDCLXVII. 

On a neat white marble tablet, affixed to the 
wall, nearly opposite the last — 

Beneath are deposited the remains of the most reverend John 
Potter, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury^ who died October x, 
mdccxlii, in the lxxiv year of his age. 

Directly above the last, on a white marble 
tablet, with arms — Per pale, erm. and or, a man 
in armour unhelmeted proper, his dexter hand 
resting on a rock. In a canton vert, a ship of the 
second — 

Extra hsec mcenia sepultum 

Quod mortale fuit 

Georgii Leonardi Steinman, 

Armigeri, 

Filii unigeniti 

Leonardi Steinman, 

De S tJ Gallen oppido, Helveticis civitatibus; 

Natus in oppido supra memorato, 

i Martii, mdcclviii. 

Mortuus in hac parochia, 

iv Januarii, mdcccxxx. 

Ibidemque sepulta 

Louisa Bastin, 

filia natu minima 

Georgii Leonardi & Susannae Steinman, 

Conjux Philippi Henrici Byrne, Armigeri. 

Decessit xm Julii, mdcccxxviii. 

setat. xxxiii. 



THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 179 

On the Ground. 

Between the pews adjoining the east wall, on a 
black marble ledger — 

Here lyeth the body of 

The most reverend Dr. Thomas Herring, 

Archbishop of Canterbury, 

who died March 13, 1757, aged 64. 

Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like 
ledger, is the following inscription, now partly 
hid by the pews — 

Underneath lyeth interred (near the remains of her parents) the 
body of Mrs. Dorothy Pennyman, relict of Sir James Pennyman, of 
Thornton, in the county of York, Baronet, and one of the daughters 
and co-heirs of Dr. William Wake, late Lord Archbishop of Canter- 
bury. She died the 2nd day of December, 1754, aged 55 years. 

At the head of the last, on a like ledger — 

Peter Champion, Esq., died May 27, 1758, aged 75. 

Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like 
ledger, with arms — erm., three trefoils sa., em- 
paling a%. on a fesse between three martlets arg. 
three cross croslets of the first — 

In memory of Catherine Champion, wife of Peter Champion, 
who died after a tedious illness, suffered with resignation, November 
the 14th, 1750, in the 63rd year of her age; having always deserved 
well of her husband and children. 

Adjoining the last, on a like ledger, with arms, 
gu. a fesse vaire between three ravens or — 

In memory of Anthony Wallinger, of London; he died June 
the 4th, 1 728, in the 90th year of his age. 

N2 



180 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Adjoining the last, on a like ledger, with arms 
a%, on a fesse between three martlets arg. three 
cross croslets of the first — 

Here lieth the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Wright^ who died March 
15th, 1784, aet.59 years. 

Before the tomb of Archbishop Whitgift, on a 
Portland stone — 

Here lye y e bodies of 2 sons & 1 daughter of Henry & Hannah 
Mills, who died in their infancy: 

Mary, buried June 26, 1716. 

John, Nov. 17, 1717. 

Hannah freeman, June 6, 1724. 

Before the tomb of Warham, on a marble 
ledger — 

Here lieth the body 

of 

Sir Joseph Sheldon, K fc , some time 

IA Mayor of London, the eldest 

son of Ralph Sheldon, Esq r , 

who was 

the elder brother of Gilbert Sheldon, L d Archbishop 

of Canterbury. 

He left issue two daughters, Elizabeth & Ann, 

and 

died Aug st ye 16°, 1681, 

in the 51st year of his age. 

Adjoining the last, on a like ledger — 

Here lieth the body of Daniel Sheldon, Esq., son of Ralph Shel- 
don, Esq., elder brot r of Gilbert Sheldon, Ld. Archbishop of Can- 
terbury. He died 14 Feb. 1698, aged 65, leaving issue one son, Gil- 
bert, and two daugh trs , Judith and Mary. 

Adjoining the last, on a veined marble ledger — 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 181 

Here lyes interr'd the Body of Judith Sheldon, who died Deer. 
6th, Anno Dom ni 1725, Aged 47 years. She was daugh r of Daniel 
Sheldon, Esq., who also lyes interr'd near this place. 

At the head of Daniel Sheldon, on a marble 
ledger — 

Here lieth the body of Roger Sheldon, Esq., son of Ralph Shel- 
don, Esq., who was the elder brother of Gilbert Sheldon, L d Arch- 
bishop of Canterbury; he died unmarried, 30th May, 1710, aged 71. 

At the head of Judith Sheldon, on a like 
ledger — 

John Durand, Esq., died at Woodcot Lodge, near Carshalton, Surry, 
xix July, mdcclxxxviii, in the lxx year of his age. 

At the foot of Durand, on a Portland stone 
ledger — 

Here lyeth the body of John Mattock, citizen and haberdasher 
of London: obiit June 9, 1720. 

Also Mr. Richard Mattock, apothecary, who died February the 
25th, 1720-21, aged 26. 

A little to the west of Durand, on a large 
black marble ledger — 

Sub hoc marmore deposita sunt corpora 

Rachelis uxoris Thom^e Brigstock, Armig. 

quae obiit xvn Kal. Aug. A.D. 1756 ; aetatis ejus xlvi. 

Thomae Brigstock supra nominati, 

Caroli filii Thomae Brigstock junioris et Annae Papwell 

conjugis ejus, nepotis Thomae et Rachelis. 

Quorum 

Thomas obiit x Kal. Mart. 1771, aetatis lxiv. 

Carolus quatuor hebdomadum infans x Kal. ejusdem 

Mensis et anni. 

Avus et Nepos eodem die sepulti sunt. 



182 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Hie etiam jacet 

Ricardus Papwell Brigstock, 

Caroli frater infans, 

Qui xii hebdomadas natus decessit 

vn Idus Decembris A. 1785. 

Necnon 

Anna Rachel Brigstock, 

filia Thomas Brigstock et Annse Papwell uxoris, 

quas obiit vm Nonas Maii 1787, aetatis A. xiii. 

Et 

Thomas Brigstock armiger, 

qui obiit 

Pridie Idus Octobris, A.D. 1787, aetatis xlix. 

Esto Fidelis usque ad mortem, 

Et Dato tibi coronam Vitas. 

Thomas Brigstock, filius Thomas Brigstock 

et Annas Papwell, uxoris, qui obiit 

xxvn Octob. 1792, aetatis xvi. 

At the foot of the pillar, at the entrance of the 
south aisle, on a black marble ledger, with arms 
— sa. three horse buckles arg., with an annulet 
for difference. The inscription, which is partly 
hid, is as follows:— 

Here lieth interred the body of Henry Martin, late Citizen and 
Grocer of London, son of Thomas Martin, of Bowsham in Oxford- 
shire, gentleman, and Lucie his wife, who departed this life Febru- 
ary the 27th, 1603, aged forty-two years and two months. 

Nave. 

On an elegant marble column, supporting an 
urn, on the south wall of the east end of the 
nave, designed by Glover, the author of " Leo- 
nidas," is the following inscription— arms arg. 
on a chev. sa., three mullets or, between three 



THE CHURCH— MONUMENTS, &C. 183 

pellets gu. for Bourdieu, empaling per pale a%. 
and gu., a cross engr. of the first — 

Near the remains 

of his beloved wife Philippa Bourdieu, 

this monument was erected 

by James Bourdieu of Comb, in the county of Surrey, Esq., 

whom, with ten children, 

the objects of her long and unwearied care, 

she left behind her, 

under the most unfeigned affliction 

at their common irreparable loss ; 

she died 

at the age of 50, on the 24th of June, 1780. 

On a marble tablet, under the above — 

Near this place 

are deposited the remains of 

James Bourdieu, Esq., 

of Coombe, in the county of Surrey, who died on the 3rd of 

November, 1802, in the 90th year of his age. 

In the same situation as Philippa Bourdieu's 
monument, on the opposite side, is a column of 
white marble, supporting a funereal urn, with 
the following inscription — arms Bourdieu, em- 
paling gu. a fesse vaire ; in chief an unicorn pas- 
sant, between two mullets or; all within a bor- 
dure of the last, pellettee — 

Sacred 

To the Memory of 

Mrs. Anne Bourdieu, 

Wife of John Bourdieu, Esq., 

of Golden Square, London. 

She departed this life 

the xxiii of March 

MDCCXCVIII 

aged xxxi years. 



184 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

A virtuous daughter and a sister kind, 
A tender mother, and a wife refin'd, 
Who all the various dues of life sustain 'd, 
Inspir'd by wisdom and in honour train'd, 
Lies here entomb'd, here virtue, beauty, grace, 
Ready for heav'n, have run their earthly race; 
Yet, to the shorten'd course of youth confin'd, 
She shew'd but glimpses of her glorious mind; 
Where multitudes of virtues pass'd along, 
Each moving onward in the lovely throng, 
To kindle admiration, and make room 
For greater multitudes that were to come ; 
But her vast mind, rich with such gifts divine, 
In heaven's eternal year alone could shine. 

On the Ground. 
On a brass plate inlaid in a Portland stone 
ledger, is the following inscription : — 

Here under are conteined the bodyes of 
Thomas Parkinson, late farmer of y e Parsonage 

of Croydon, and Elizabeth his wife, which 
Thomas deceased y e 7th day of September, 1603, 

And Elizabeth the 30th of January, 1594. 

On a large black marble ledger, to the west of 
the last, is the effigies, in brass, of a man, and 
the indents of the figures of a woman and child. 
The inscription plate is gone, but the follow- 
ing are the words it contained : — 

Here lieth interred the body of John Packington, late 
of the Parsonage of this Towne of Croydon, who decea- 
sed the xxii day of June An. Dom. 1607, leving issue one 
Onely childe Henry Packington by Anne his wife, who, 
yet surviving, at her decease appoynteth heare 
her place of buriall*. 

* Vide Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, Vol. 2. 



THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 185 

On the same stone, a little lower — 

Curteous Reader, knowe that here doth ly 
A rare example of true pietie, 
Whose glorie 'twas to prove herselfe in life 
A vertuous wooman, and a loyall wife. 
Her name to you obscurely He impart 
In this her Anagrame no arme but Hart ; 
And least you joyne amis & soe loose y e name 
Looke underneathe & you shall find y e same. 
Martha Burton y e wife of Barnard Burton Esqr. 
deceased y e 20h day of November, & was buryed 
y e 26h day, An°. Dni. 1668. 

To the west of the last, on a Portland stone 
ledger — 

Here lieth Interred the Body of M. Ann Catherine Berne, who 
departed this life April the 10, 1758, aged 5 years. 

Adjoining the above, to the south, on a like 
stone — 

In memory of Mrs. Anna Maria Berne, who died April 
in her 60th year. 

Adjoining the last, to the west, is a like stone, 
covering the remains of James Bourdieu, Esq., 
before mentioned. 

Adjoining the above, to the south, is a like 
stone, covering the remains of Phillippa, his wife, 
also before mentioned. 

Adjoining the last, to the south, on a like 
stone — 

Here lyeth the bodies of Andrew Smith, who departed this life 
23rd of June, 1755, aged 48 years. 

Also Hannah his wife, who departed this life the 12th of Decem- 
ber, 1735, aged 73 years. 



186 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

To the west of the last, on a black marble 

ledger, is the brass effigies of a woman ; and, on 

a brass plate beneath, these words — 

3EIt?afatf) ttaugfyter of 3of>n Itpnge anU ©Iemence ins togfe fyz tonte 
of Samuel jFfnncf)*, unto tof)om sty fcare tfjree sonnes $c ttoo "flaugfjtcrs, 
ant( ttmassimge tf)£ xitj Ua^e of Ttfooemocr, tyxz Ipti) interreD ; anno 
3Bnt 1589, eetatts suae 21. 

To the west of the last, in the middle of the 
aisle, on a Portland stone ledger — 

Here lyeth interred the body of Miss Abigail Cooke, daughter of 
Mr. Philip Cooke and Mary his wife, who departed this life the 16th 
day of December, 1776, aged 30 years. 

Also Mrs. Mary Cooke, mother of the above-named Abigail Cooke, 
who departed this life the 10th of January, 1769, aged 60 years. 

Adjoining the last, to the west, on a like 
stone — 

" That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and 
shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, 
thou shalt be saved." — Romans x. ch. ver. 6. 

Underneath this stone are deposited the remains of Mrs. Elizabeth 
Hetherington, wife of Mr. Theophilus Hetherington, who died the 
28th day of April, 1768, aged 75 years. 

Adjoining the last, to the west, on a black 
marble ledger — 

Stephen Galhie, Gent, 
died September 16, 1772, in the 70th year of his age. 

Adjoining the last, to the west, on a Portland 
stone ledger — 

In memory of George Reavely, Esq., who departed this life Ja- 
nuary 17, 1780, aged 65 years. 






THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 187 

Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like 
stone — 

In memory of Mrs. Rose Belgrave, departed this life the 2nd 
of September, 1780, aged 86 years. 

North Aisle. 

On a neat white marble tablet, on the wall 
near the pulpit, is the following inscription: — 

Sacred 

To the memory of 

Henry Richard Raven, Esq re , 

of this parish, 

who died September 27th, 1831, aged 49 years. 

His remains are deposited 

in the church of St. Vedast. 

This tablet is erected by his widow 

as a tribute of affectionate respect to the 

memory of a husband whose loss she can 

never cease to lament. 

On a copper plate, affixed to the north wall, 
with arms — or, a buck trippant gu. in a canton 
of the last, a ship arg. On an escutcheon of 
pretence, quarterly arg. and sa. on a bend gu., 
three lions passant guardant or, empaling the 
same. 

Mrs. Mary Ann Parker died September y e xvm th , mdccxxxii. 
Aged lxx years. 



188 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

On the Ground. 

At the entrance of the aisle, from the west, on 
a black marble ledger — 

Memoriae sacrum : 
To the pious Memorye of his religious Father, 
Ralph Smith, who deceased the\^6 
of Sept. 1639, aged 83, Thomas 
Smith did lay this marble, 
as a grateful testi- 
monye of his 
Filial Duty. 
So well thou lov'st God's House, tho', beinge blinde, 
Thou came oft thither, lighted by thy mind; 
Where thou didst offer such a sacrifice 
As few do now present that have their eyes; 
A bleeding harte of sinne in sorowe Dround, 
Sustain'd by Hope and with Devotion cround; 
Therefore thou dost deserve an abler Pen, 
Whose spritely Lines mighte stir up zeale in men ; 
To write thine Epitaph, I am sure of this, 
What thou dost want in Words thou hast in Blisse. 

To the south of the last, on a Portland stone 
ledger — 

Susanna Copley died October 25th, 1785, aged 9 years. 
Jonathan Copley died Nov. 9, 1785, aged 3 years and 8 months. 

Adjoining Smith, on the west, on a black mar- 

° Here lieth the body of 

Marmaduke Wy vel, Esq r ; 
and one of y e King's Majie ts 

Pentioners, second Sonne 

to S r Marmaduke Wyvell, of 

Cunstable-Burton, in York- 

shiere, Knight and Barronet, 

who dyed y e xxth of August 

1623, aged 58. 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 189 

On the same stone, lower, in small Roman let- 
ters, is this inscription : — 

Juxta hie jacet 

In spem certain resurgendy* Depositum 

Corpus Marmaduci Wyvell, Armigeri, 

Filii secundo-geniti Dni Marmaduci 

Wyvell, de Cunstable-Burton, in Agro 

Eboracensi, Equitis & Baronetti. 
Ibidemque reconduntur Corpora Mar- 
maduci et Judithse filiae ejusdem 
Marmaduci Wyvell, supra nominati : 
Beati sunt pulveres, 
Quibus promittitur a Christo 
Resurrecto ad gloriam 
in Rego suo : 
Adveniat cito ora tu etiam Lector, 
Obiit 2 die Januarii 1678, aetat. suae 69. 

Adjoining the last, on the west, on a black 
marble ledger — TT , , , . , 

^ Here lyeth buried 

Elizabeth the daughter of Mr. Roberte Crowe & Catherine his 
wife, which Elizabeth deceased in the year of our Lord 1638. 

Adjoining the last, on the south, on a white 
marble lozenge, inserted in a Portland stone 
ledger — M. s. 

in 

Spem certam 

Resurrectionis, 

Hie jacet 

Cornelius Clifton, 

Juvenis eximiae spei. 

Obiit 15 Maii, 

/^Domini mdcix, 

Anno < iEtatis suae 

V. xx m ° 

* Sic. orig. 



190 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Adjoining the last, on the west, on a like 
stone — 

In memory of Peter Harrison, Esq., of this parish, who depart- 
ed this life November 22, 1755, aged 70 years. 

Adjoining the last, on the west, on a like 
stone — 

Mrs. Sarah Gibson, who died June the 1st, 1761, aged 72 years. 
Also William Gibson, husband of the above Sarah, died the 19th of 
April, 1773, aged 87 years. 

At the head of Crowe are the brass figures of 
a man and woman, but the inscription plate is 
gone ; some distance from which is another stone, 
with the indents of the figures of a man and wo- 
man, and the indents of two shields of arms. 
That over the woman contained formerly a lion 
rampant. 

Westward of the last, on a veined marble 
ledger, with arms, (now concealed by a fire- 
place), quarterly, 1 and 4 or, a buck trippantgw., 
on a canton of the second a ship arg.; 2 and 3 
arg., a mullet sa. — ■ 

Here lyeth the body of Christopher, son of John and Bathsheba 
Parker, who died the 7th of October, 1711, aged 3 weeks. 

Also Henry the son of the aforesaid, who died February the 2nd, 
1717, aged 11 months and 2 days. 

Likewise the body of the aforesaid John Parker, who died the 
16th of June, 1740, aged 52. 

Also the body of Bathsheba Parker, wife of the above John 
Parker; she died May 6, 1763, in the 84th year of her age. 

South of the last, on a Portland stone ledger — 

Here lieth interred two daughters and a son of Frederick Burr, 



THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 191 

Esq., by Catherine his wife, viz. Catherine, who died January 1, 
1734-5, aged 8 weeks: Also Petronella, who died April 18, 1739, 
aged one year, seven months, and seven days : Also Samuel Alex- 
ander, who died May 1, 1732, aged seven months and sixteen days. 

Westward of the last, on a black marble 
ledger — 

Here lieth the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Whitaker, late wife of Ed- 
ward Whitaker, Esq., who died September 1, 1727, aged 25 years. 

And also Elizabeth their daughter, who died April 18, 1728, aged 
11 months. 

Adjoining the last, on the west, on a like 
stone — 

In memory of John Elderton, late of Lincoln's Inn, and of this 
parish, gentleman, who died the 5th of August, 1782, in the 53rd 
year of his age, beloved and regretted by all his friends. 

Adjoining the last, on the west, on a Portland 
stone ledger — 

Here lyeth the body of Mr. John Baynham, who departed this 
life the 20th day of January, 1779. 

South Aisle. 

On an oval white marble tablet affixed to the 
wall, opposite Archbishop Sheldon's monument, 
is the following inscription : — 

Beneath this place were deposited the remains of Thomas Brig- 
stock, Esq.; he died of a decline, 27th October, 1792, in the 17th 
year of his age. If a suavity of manners and goodness of mind 
could have preserved his life, he had not now been numbered among 
the dead. 

Near the last, on the same wall, is a handsome 
white marble tablet, bearing the representation 



192 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

of a rose and pruning knife, with the words — 
" Flos nifnium brevis" and the following in- 
scription: — m , 

To the revered memory 

of 

Frances, fifth daughter 

of the late Samuel Davis, 

of Birdhurst Lodge, in this parish, Esq , 

Born 7th June, 1810, deceased 10th May, 1828, 

This tablet, 

in the absence of her own surviving brothers, 

is erected 

by the husband of her eldest sister, 

who, having known her from childhood, 

offers this last tribute 

of brotherly love. 

On a brass plate, on the south wall — 

Here under lieth Buried the bodie of Franc. 
Tirrell, somtimes Citizen and Grocer of London. 

He was a good Benefactor to the poore of 
divers Hospitalls, Prisons, and Pishes of London, 

and to the continuall releif of the poore 

Freemen of the Grocers. He gave to this Pishe 

200Z. to build a newe Market-house, and 40Z. 

t° beutifie this church, and to make a new 

Saintes Bell*. He died in September 1600. 

On a handsome white marble tablet, on the 
same wall — 

In memory of Thomas Bainbridge, of Croydon Lodge, Esquire, 
who departed this life, January 8th, 1830, in the 81st year of his 
age. 

* One John de Aldermaston, who was buried in this church in 
1403, left, by will, twenty sheep, for the purchase of a new saints' 
bell. Vide Reg. Arundel, fol.212b. 



/ 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 193 

On the Ground. 

On a black marble ledger, with arms — vert, a 
bend arg. cotised or, with a crescent for differ- 
ence, empaling 

Under the pew lieth interred the body of Mrs. Ann Sophia Peers, 
late wife of Mr. Richard Peers, who departed this life, April the 
10th, 1766, aged 42 years. 

Also the above Richard Peers, Esq., Alderman of London, who 
departed this life June the 25th, 1772, aged 72 years. 

Also Thomas Peers, Esq., brother of the above, who departed 
this life November 15, 1765, aged 55 years. 

To the south-east of the last are the indents of 
the figures of a man and woman. 

To the west of the last, on a Portland stone 
ledger — 

Underneath this stone are deposited y e Remains of Mrs. Christ. 
Fenwick, wife of Edward Fenwick of South Carolina, Esq., and 
last surviving Daughter of the late Colonel John Steurt, died No- 
vember y e 6, 1785, aged 33 years. 

At the end of the aisle, on a like ledger — 

H. W. Died xxn nd Jan'T mdcclxxxii. William Welbank, Esq., 
Died xvi th Octob. mdccxl, in the Li st year of his age. 

Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like 
ledger — 

To the memory of Jane, wife of Thomas Brewster, of this parish, 
who departed this life November 1, 1783, aged 38 years. 

To the east of the last, on a black marble 
ledger — 

The Honourable James Duglass, Esq., Major General of his Ma- 
O 



194 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

jesty's Forces, lyes buried here; he died April the 10th, 1748, aged 
75 years. 

On a black marble ledger — 

To the memory of Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Wilson, widow, departed 
this life the 28th of May, 1777, aged 77 years. 

Cross Aisle. 

On a brass plate on the wall, above the north 
door, is this inscription: — 

Near this place are deposited the remains of Joseph Wilks, Esq., 
of Measham, in the county of Derby, who' died May 24th, 1805, 
aged 73. 

On a handsome white marble tablet, on the 
west wall — 

Sacred to the memory of Robert Chatfield, Esq., who departed 
this life the xxi of May mdcccxi, aged lxiii years. Also of Ann, 
relict of the above, who departed this life the xxvm day of Septem- 
ber, mdcccxxx, aged lxxv years. 

On the Ground. 

At the entrance of the aisle, on the south, on 
a black marble ledger — 

Here lyeth interred the body of Mrs. Mary Whitehill, late wife of 
Mr. Thomas Whitehill, of this parish, who departed this life the 
22nd of May, 1781, aged 52 years. 

Adjoining the last, on a Portland stone ledger— 

James Wilkinson, Esq., Captain of Dragoons, died April 7th, 
1769, aged 49. 

Adjoining the last, to the south, on a like 
ledger — 

Mary Smith, daughter of the late Edward King, Esq., of Brom- 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 195 

ley, Kent, and wife of the Revd. John Smith, A.M., Rector of Wey- 
bridge, Surry, died xn day of September, mdcclxxxviii, in the 
lviii year of her age. 

Adjoining the last, to the west, on a like 
ledger — 

Here lieth the body of the Rev. John Vade, vicar of this parish, 
who died the 9th of June, 1765, aged 42 years. 

Also, the remains of Miss Mary Vade, his daughter, who died 
28th March, 1790. 

Likewise, Mrs. Elizabeth Vade, relict of the aforesaid Rev. John 
Vade, late vicar of this parish, and of St. Nicholas, Rochester, Kent, 
who died 23rd July, 1800, aged 80. 

To the north of the last, on a like ledger — 

In memory of William Godfrey, who died August the 3rd, 
1770, aged 9 years. 

On a Portland stone ledger, at the north end 
of this aisle — 

In memory of Mary Chatfield, wife of Allen Chatfield, who 
departed this life September the 18th, 1761, aged 39 years and 9 
months. 

Also, the above named Allen Chatfield, who departed this life 
the 30th of April, 1772, aged 60 years. 

To the north of the last, on a black marble 
ledger — ■ 

Here lyeth interred the body of Roger Drake, Esq., who depart- 
ed this life June the 20th, 1762, aged 64 years. 

Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like 
ledger — 

Here lieth interred the body of Roger Drake, who departed this 
life January 23, 1770, aged 22 years. 

02 



196 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Adjoining the preceding, to the north, on a like 
ledger — 

Here lieth interred the body of Beeston Drake, who departed 
this life June 14, 1764, aged 21 years. 

Belfry. 
On a Portland stone ledger — 

Mrs. Sarah Heathfield died the 17th of February, 1772, aged 
61 years. 

On a like ledger, adjoining the last, on the 
north — 

Here lyeth the body of John Heathfield, Esq., who departed 
this life the 8th day of April, 1743, aged 73 years. 

Also of Elizabeth, his widow, who died the 7th of October, 1748, 
aged 77 years. 

Adjoining the last, to the south, on a like ledger — 

Here lieth the body of Mary, the late wife of John Heathfield 
the younger, Gent., who departed this life the 11th day of June, 
1741, aged 44 years. 

Also, the above named John Heathfield, Esq., died the 14th of 
November, 1776, aged 78 years. 

Adjoining the last, to the south, on a like ledger — 

Here lieth the Body of 

William Heathfield, Esq. 

of London, Grocer, 

who died Dec. 12, 1791, 

aged 56 years. 

On the same stone — 

Hie .... . 

Johannis Heathfield, M. A. 

nuper Vicarii Eccle . . . 

Northaw in Comitatu Hert. 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 197 

Qui per annos quinquaginta officio 

Doctrina orthodoxi 

Vitae inculpabilis Morti resignat . . . 

Ob. vu Feb. Ann. Dom. mdcccv. 

iEtat. l xxvii. 

Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like 
ledger — 

Here lie the bodies of three daughters of John and Mary Heath- 
field, viz. — 

Jane, died December 19th, 1727, aged three months, 
Margaret, died March 8, 1729, aged one month. 
Elizabeth, died March 27, 1731, aged two months. 

Above this row, to the south, on a like ledger— 

In memory of Robert Ridley, son of Thomas and Mary Ann 
Ridley, departed this life December 11, 1799, in his fourth year. 

Also, of John Ridley, son of Thomas and Mary Ann Ridley, de- 
parted this life December , 1804, aged 16 years and months. 

Adjoining the last, to the south, on a like 
grave-stone — 

Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Kimbra Richards, died January 
the 21th, 1782, aged 52 years. 

Not lost-^but gone before. 

To the south of the last, on a like ledger — 

John Chatfield, Esq., of this Parish, departed this life May .... 
aged 56 years. 

Sacred to the memory of Ann Chatfield, wife of the above 
John Chatfield, Esq., who departed this life April 4th, 1819, in her 
59th year, a sincere Christian and an affectionate wife. 



198 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



Gallery. 
On a large handsome veined marble monu- 
ment in the north gallery, with arms or, a buck 
trippant gu. on a canton of the last, a ship arg. y 
in an escutcheon of pretence arg., a mullet sa. 
empaling the last — 

Sacred to the memory of John Parker, Esq., formerly of Lon- 
don, who died the 6th of March, 1706, aged 46 years, and is here 

interred. 

Also of 

Elizabeth, his relict, who died the 10th of August, 1730, aged 

70 years. 

This pair, whilst they lived together, were 

A pattern for conjugal behaviour ; 

He a careful indulgent husband, 

She a tender engaging wife; 

He active in business, 

Punctual to his word, 

Kind to his family, 

Generous to his friend, 

But charitable to all; 

Possest of every social virtue. 

During her widowhood, 

She carefully and virtuously 

Educated five children, 

Who survived her : 

She was an excellent ceconomist, 

Modest without affectation ; 

Religious without superstition; 

And in every action behaved 

With uncommon candour and steadiness. 






THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 199 



Epitaphs formerly in the Church, 

But now either lost, or concealed by the erection of Pews. 

The following memorandum of inscriptions is 
extracted from a MS. collection of epitaphs, dat- 
ed 1610, formerly in the possession of Nicholas 
Charles, Esq., Lancaster Herald*: — 

In y e Queere, 
Margrett Morton, daughter of [William] Woodford, cosyn and 
heire to Raffe Woodford, of the countie of Leicester, died 1507f. 

S r . Robert Morton, Knight, .... and servant to King 
Henry 8, ob. 1514. His wyfej was [daughter] and heire lo [John] 
Twinyhoe. 

Arms, quarterly, gu. and or, in the dexter 
chief and sinister base a goat's head erased arg., 
attired of the second ; on a chief erm. three be- 
zants, each charged with an escallop of the first ; 
over all, a label of three points. 

Thomas Heron, Esquire, died 1544$; his wyfe was Elizabeth, 
d & co-heire to Wm. Bond, clarke of the grene cloth. 

* Lansdowne MSS. No. 874, p. 64. 

f Second wife of Thomas Morton, Esq., of Lichlade, Gloucester- 
shire, and mother of John Morton, Esq , of Whitehorse. 

\ By the pedigree of this family, it appears that the wife of Sir 
Robert Morton was Jane, eldest daughter of Nicholas Warham, 
brother of the archbishop of that name, and that his mother was 
Dorothea, daughter and heir of John Twyniho, Esq., of Cirencester, 
first wife of Thomas Morton, Esq., of Lichlade. 

§ His widow, who died in January, 1575, was also buried in this 
church. Vide Register. 



200 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Arms, per pale gu. and a%., on a chev. arg. 
three cinquefoils betw. three herons sa,* 

Middle Chancel and Nave. 

At the entrance of the altar rails, on a brass 
plate, under the figures of a man in armour, and 
a woman kneeling — 

Here lyeth Willyam Heron, Esquyer and Justys of the 

Peace, and Alse his wyfe; which Willyam deceased the 

iiij daye of January, in the yere of our Lord mccccclxii; 

whose soule God take to hys mercy. Amen. 

Arms — a chev. charged with three cinquefoils 
betw. three herons. 

On a black marble ledger, within the altar 
rails — 

Here lyeth interred the Body of Mrs. 
Susannah Legatt, the Wife of Mr. George 
Legatt, Citizen and Dry-Fishmonger 
of London, the onely Daughter of Mr. 
Richard Shallecross, of the Parish of Croy- 
don, Yeoman, aged 24 years, leving 
one Son. She departed this Life the 9th 
day of September, in the yeare of our 
Lord God, 1679. 

Arms — a chev. murally betw. three foxes' heads 
erased. 

* This ledger commemorates Thomas Heron, Esq., of Adgcomb. 
It is now concealed by the floor of the altar. It contains the figures 
of a man armed, his wife, four sons, and seven daughters. The 
arms of Heron are inscribed in several places. In p. 49, ante, we 



THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 201 

On a like stone, with arms, a cross saltire — 

Sara, the wife of Jona- 
than Andrews, of Lon- 
don, Merchant, died 
the 1 of October, 1664. 

On a rough marble, with arms, in a lozenge 
arg. a cross saltire gu. betw. four eagles dis- 
played a%. 

Here lieth interred the body of the 

truly pious and singularly accomplish'd 

Lady Dame Ruth Scudamore, daughter 

to Griffith Hamden of Hamden, 

in the county of Bucks, Esq. ; first 

married to Edw. Oglethorpe, Esq., 

sonn & heir to Owen Oglethorpe, 

in the county of Oxford, Knight, 

and by him had 2 daughters; after 

to Sr. Phillip Scudamore of Burnham, 

in the county of Bucks, Kt., and lastly 

to Henry Leigh, Esq r ., sonn and heir 

to Sr. Edw. Leigh, of Rushall, in the 

county of Stafford, Kt. ; by him had 

one son, named Samuel, now living. 

She dyed at Croydon, March 28, 1649, 

being the 73rd year of her age. 

Under the figure of a man in a gown, on a 
brass plate — 

Sub hoc marmore sepultus est Gulielmus Mill, generosus, dua- 
rum uxorum maritus ; quarum prior erat Avisia, filia Edmundi Har- 
well de Besford in Wigorniensi agro, armigeri ; e qua sustulit filios 
quatuor, Nicolaum, Gulielmum, Joannem, Thomam; filias quinque, 

stated, from the Herald's Visitations, that Thomas Heron died in 
1518; but the above date of 1544 is most probably correct. 



202 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Annam, Elizabetham, Franciscam, Milieentam, Margaretam. Pos- 
terior Margareta filia Nicolai Clerke de Ecleston in Eboracensi agro, 
generosi; e qua sustulit unicam filiam Margaretam. Septuagesimo 
aetatis anno mortuus est, Januarii duodecimo, anno Domini millesi- 
mo quingentesimo sexagesimo octavo. 

On a brass plate, on a grave-stone — 

Here under lieth the body of 

Edward Arnold, a brewer of 

this towne, about the age of 64 

yeares, who deceased on the 10 day of 

August, anno Dni. 1628. 

St. Mary's Chaantry and North Aisle. 
On a black marble ledger — 

Here lyeth interred the body of Ann, the wife of Mr. William 
Wharam, citizen and shipwright of London, who departed this life 
the 4th of October, 1716, aged 52 years. 

On a like ledger, with arms — in a chief, a 
demi-lion and cross croslet, empaling erm. in 
a chief three lions ramp.; crest, a demi-lion 
ramp. — 

Here lyeth the bodies of Mr. 

William and Mary, son and 

daughter of Mr. William Boddington, 

of London, and Frances his wife. 

Mary departed this life the 13th of 

July, 1695, aged 14 yeares; William 

(Cursiter) departed the 25th of 

November, 1 703, aged 26 years. 

William the father departed the 10th of 

February, 1718, aged 73. 

Frances the mother departed the 11th of 

November, 1727, aged 84. 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 203 

On a brass plate — 

Here lyeth the bodyes of Robert 

Jackson, yeoman, the sonne of Nicholas 

Jackson, and Anne his wife, daughter of 

Richard Wood, yeoman, who had issue by 

her 9 children, whereof 3 were living at 

his decease, the 21 daye of September, 1622; 

and Anne his wife died the 30 of August, 1612. 

On a brass plate, beneath the figures of a man 
and woman — 

Here lyeth buried the body of Robert 

Jackson the younger, yeoman. He married 

Elizabeth Wackrell, daughter of Richard 

Wackrell, yeoman, who departed this life 

xith of October, anno Dom. 1629. 

For whose pious memorie his loving 

wife caused this memoriall. 

They had issue 17 children, 12 sonnes and 5 daughters. 

On a black marble ledger — 

Here lyeth the body of Francis Fletcher, late citizen of Lon- 
don, and a friend to mankind, who departed this life the 4th of 
July, 1757, aged 58. 

Also the remains of Mary Fletcher, relict of Francis aforesaid; 
she departed this life April 11, 1771, aged 65 years. 

On a Portland stone ledger — 

Ann Lodge, daughter of James and Mary Lodge, departed this 
life June 29, 1772, aged two years. 

On a black marble ledger — 

Here lyeth the body of Benjamin Bowles, Esq., who died Octo- 
ber 6, 1776, in the 60th year of his age. 



204 



HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



St. Nicholas' Chauntry, and South Aisle. 
On a black marble ledger — 

Depositum 

Gulielmi Wake, 

Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, 

Qui obiit xxiv Januarii, anno Dom. mdccxxxvi. 

iEtatis suae lxxix. 

Et 

EtheldredjE, uxoris ejus, 

Quae obiit xi Aprilis, mdccxxxv, 

iEtatis suae lxii. 

On a Portland stone slack, with marble 
ledger — 

Here lieth the body of 

the Most Reverend 

John Potter, 

Archbishop of Canterbury; 

who died 

October x, mdccxlvii, 

in the Lxxivth year of his age*. 

On a black marble ledger — 

Here lieth the body of William Herring, Esq 1 ., who died xxvin 
Sep. mdccci, in the lxxxii year of his age. 

On a like ledger- 
Here lieth the body of Montague Dorothy, wife of William 
Herring, Esq., who died xxvn July, mdcclxxxix, in the lxv year 
of her age. 

* This ledger being concealed by the erection of pews in this part 
of the church, the marble tablet before mentioned was placed on 
the \ 
\ 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 205 

On a marble tomb, at the foot of Murga- 
troid's — 

Here lieth Elizabeth Bradbury, 

Wyfe unto Wymond Bradbury, of 

Newport-pond, in Essex, Gent., daughter 

to William Whitgifte, of Claveringe, in 

the county aforesaide, Gent., and second 

brother to Doctor John Whitgifte, Arch- 

bishoppe of Canterbury ; and who had 

issue by her abovenamed husband, Jane, 

William, Anne, and Thomas; and deceased 

the 26 day of June, an. Dni., 1612, being 

of the age of 38 yeares and three 

months. 

On a brass plate, beneath the figures of a man 
in armour, and a woman kneeling — 

Here lyeth the bodies of Thomas Walshe, of Croydon, gentle- 
man, 3rd Sonn of Fraunces Walshe, of Sheldisley Walshe, inn the 
County of Worcester, Esquier, and Katherin, his Wife, Daughter 
of William Butler, of Tyes in Sussex, Gent., whoe had by her too 
sonnes and one daughter, viz. Fraunces, John, & Avice; which 
John died younge, and the aforesaide Thomas Walshe departed the 
xxx of August, 1600. 

Arms — quarterly 1 and 4 arg., a fesse betw. 
six martlets sa., 2 and 3 arg,, a chev. betw. 
three roses gu., with an annulet for difference, 
empaling *. 

On a black marble ledger, by Archbishop 
Whitgift's tomb — 

* These arms are restored from the MS. cited in p. 199. 



206 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

M. S. 

To the Memorie of y* Worthy 

Lady Elizabeth Gresham, 

Late wife of Sir William 
Gresham, Knight, who, after 

she had lived 72 yeares, 
Unspotted in her Conversation, 
Charitable to the poore, 
Sincere in Religion, Re- 
signed up her soule into the 
hands of her Creator, upon y e 
9 day of December, 1632, 
& Lieth here interred in 
hope of a glorious 
Resurrection. 
For a Memoriall of which 
Singular virtues her deare & 
only Daughter, E. G., hath 
consecrated this marble as a 
Duty she could 
Performe. 

On a Portland stone ledger — 

Here lieth the body of John Usborn, 

citizen and stationer of London, 

who died the 3rd of November, 1738, aged 70 years. 

He was remarkable for his piety to God, 

and his benevolence to his fellow creatures. 

Also, 

Grace, the wife of the said John Usborn, 

who died July the 17th, in the 76th year of her age. 

On a brass plate, under the indents of some 

figures — 

%m uriter Iittti) tf)e foottp of So^n Babenant, €Dttt?en antf Jte= 
cf)ant GTaglor of IConUon, foi)o Ijatt to ixnoiz J&argaret Clarke, antf fyatf 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 207 

issue t»e f)er x sonnes antt ttij ttaugfjters. 3|e, being about tfje age of 
Ix antJ one peres, "OeceaseU tf)e xxiiftl) of ©etober, ^Inno Domini, 1596. 

Arms — quarterly 1 and 4 gu., semee of cross 
croslets fitchey or, three escallops erm.; 2 and 3 
vaire gu. and sa., a canton of the first, empaling 
or; a fesse between three lions couchant regard- 
ant gu.* 

On a brass plate, on a rough black stone — 

Richard Yeoman, farmer, of Waddon 

Courte, the husband of 3 wives, by 

whom he had 9 children ; 5 by the 

first, 2 by the nexte, and 2 by the laste : 

and deceasing the xxvith daye of 

December, here lyeth buried, 
Anno Dni. 1590, setatis suae, 90. 

On a brass plate, on a white stone — 

Here lieth the body of Thomas Yeomans, 

who had issue, by Anne his wife, George 

and Susan ; which Thomas deceased the 

first of April], An. Dni. 1602. 

On a Portland stone ledger — 

William Chapman of Doctors' Commons, Gent., died December 
23, 1730, aged 52 years. 

Cross Aisle. 
Between the middle and south aisle, on a brass 
plate, on a greyish stone — 

©ntfer tf;is stone Ipetf) interred tfje botfp of 3of)n a&ootfe, late of 
Crontton, En=f)oftler, tofjo Jjatf 2 fopfes, %wnz antf ^mp. ; bp. i)is first 
toife f)e f)atf allone nssueie 7 sonnes ; antt bg tf;e last, 3 sonnes antf 4 

* Restored from the before-mentioned paper. 



208 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Sautters. 3|e tieteasett tfye 23 Ba» of HJune, oeinge Satertfag, an. JBni, 
1525, aetatis sue 52. 

On the same stone, on another brass plate — 

<&lim et talis ego qualis nunc tu esse bitJeris, 

©lira et tu talis nunc ego qualis eris. 
©erra tegit cineres, f)umus est aptata sepulcijro, 

4§utti nisi pulbis Ijumo terra sepulta tints. 

On a small free-stone — 

Here lyeth the body of William Michell, who departed this life 
the 17 of July, 1658, aged 60 years. 

On a Portland stone ledger — 

Captain George Protheroe departed this life the 25th of Feb- 
ruary, 1745, aged 70. 

On a like stone — 

The Rev. Mr. James Gardner, rector of Slingsby, in the county 
of York, died December 11, 1772, in his 88th year*. 



Epitaphs in the Church Yard. 

Of the many inscriptions in the church-yard, 
the following only are worthy of record. 

The following inscription, preserved by Au- 
brey, was recovered from a MS. once belonging 
to Augustine Vincent, Esq., Windsor Herald — 



* There are several inscriptions in this aisle, and particularly in 
the belfry, which I could not decypher, as also one or two in other 
parts. The illegibility of those in the belfry are caused, in a great 
measure, by the feet of the bell-ringers. 



THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 209 

lifere IgEti) itofjn Ifotnmge, 1Esq., late treasurer to prince ^enrp, 
somu to 3Ktng l^nrp biti. and J^tarpe fits fiotfc, JWistress to tfje 
prince of ©assd ; tofjtcf) 3fofm tfeceasEO" rfjs xix tfape of Sanuarp, anno 
B 'ni nucctclxxx*. 

On a free-stone tomb, supported with brick, 
near the north entrance — 

Mortis Trophaeum 

de corpore Henrici Hoar, Medico-Chirurgi, 

qui prisci candoris et humanitatis 

se exemplum praebuit, 

et plane bonus fuit licet optimis comparetur. 

xi Februarii obiit, anno salutis mdccix, agtatis lxxit. 

Annis ille senex fuit et candore ; 

sed ilium dixerunt omnes non satis esse senem. 

On a stone — 

Here lies the body of Anna, the loving and beloved wife of Ro- 
ger Anderson, of London, youngest of the seven sons of William 
and Bridget Anderson, of this parish. She was daughter of the Rev. 
Dr. Casson, rector of Sutton, in Herefordshire, and one of the pre- 
bends of Hereford Minster; a great sufferer during the time of 
Cromwell's usurpation, for his firm adherence to the Church of Eng- 
land, and his loyalty to the royal martyr. She died 19 Jan. 1723, 
in the 74th year of her age. 

Finis coronat opus. 

On a large vault, bricked high above ground, 
and covered, near the north entrance to the 
church yard — 

This is the burial place of the Gardiner's family, of Haling. 

* I have not been able to find any other mention of this gentle- 
man, whose tomb was so singularly inscribed; but in the register, 
among the burials, is entered the name of one " Wyllm Readyng," 
who died January 7, 1562. 

P 



210 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Outside of the wall of St. Nicholas' Chauntry, 
on a white marble tomb, inclosed with iron pali- 
sades, is this inscription : — 

Beneath this Tomb repose the remains of 

The Right Hon. Lady Catharine Sheldon, late Phipps, 

who died in January, 1738; 

John Sheldon, Esq., of Mitcham, 

who died in March, 1752; 

The Right Hon. Constantine Phipps, Baron Mulgrave, 

who died in September, 1775; 
The Right Hon. Lady Lepel Phipps, Baroness Mulgrave, 

who died in March, 1780; 

Richard Sheldon, Esq., of Lincoln 's-inn-fields, who died 

the 15th February, 1795, aged 72 years. 

On a grave-stone — 

Here lyeth the body of 

John D'Arley, 

son of Major D'Arley, 

who departed this life 

on the 23rd day of November, 1828, 

aged 17 years. 

The following inscriptions are now lost :— 

In memory of Ursula Swineourn, 

who, 

after fulfilling her duty 

in that station of life her Creator had allotted her, 

and by her faithful and affectionate conduct, 

in a series of thirty-five years, 

rendered herself respected and beloved whilst living, 

and her loss sincerely regretted by the family she lived with, 

departed this life the 5th of January, 1781, aged 55. 

Reader, 

Let not a fancied inferiority, 

from her station in life, 



THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 211 

prevent thy regarding her example; 

but remember, 

according to the number of talents given, 

shall the increase be expected. 



Mr. William Burnett, born January 29, 1685; 
died October the 29th, 1760. 

"What is man? — 
To-day he 's drest in gold and silver bright, 
Wrapt in a shroud before to-morrow night ; 
To-day he 's feasting on delicious food, 
To-morrow, nothing eats can do him good ; 
To-day he 's nice, and scorns to feed on crumbs, 
In a few days, himself a dish for worms; 
To-day he 's honour'd, and in great esteem, 
To-morrow, not a beggar values him; 
To-day he rises from a velvet bed, 
To-morrow lies in one that's made of lead; 
To-day, his house, though large, he thinks too small, 
To-morrow, can command no house at all; 
To-day, has twenty servants at his gate, 
To-morrow, scarcely one will deign to wait ; 
To-day, perfum'd, and sweet as is the rose, 
To-morrow, stinks in every body's nose; 
To-day he 's grand, majestic, all delight, 
Ghastly and pale before to-morrow night. 
Now, when you've wrote and said whate'er you can, 
This is the best that vou can sav of man ! 



p2 



212 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Ifonefacttong to ©rogtjon. 

The following list, shewing the different benefac- 
tions to this town, is copied from a table in the 
church :— 

Estates and Charities belonging to the Parish of Croydon. 

1528. A rent-charge, given to the poor of the Little Alms House, 

by Joan Price, of £l per annum. 
1566. A piece of ground whereon the great market-house is built, 

and towards the building whereof Francis Tyrrell, citizen 

and grocer of London, gave 200/. 
1614. Seven acres of land, near Hermitage-lane, the gift of Ed- 
ward Croft. 
1619. A tenement or stable, called the Old Shop, near the Butcher 

Row. 
Two tenements by the Mint Walk, one called Parkhurst. 
1622. A faim house and 100 acres of land, called Stockbenden, at 

Limpsfield, in Surry, chiefly the gift of Henry Smith, 

Esq. 
1624. Twenty-six acres of land at New Cross, near Deptford, whereon 

have been lately erected a number of dwelling houses, the 

gift of the said Henry Smith. 
1627. The ground whereon the workhouse stands, the gift of Sir W m - 

Walter. 



BENEFACTIONS. 213 

1629. The little Alms-house, for the maintenance of eight poor 
people of this parish ; towards the rebuilding whereof Ar- 
nold Goldwell gave 40/. 

16 The Fishmongers' Company in London pay the said Alms- 
house 21. 13s. 4d. per annum*. 

1708. The Butter Market, rebuilt by Archbishop Tennison. 

A rent-charge, given by Mr. Rowland Kilner to the Little 
Alms-house, of 51. per annum. 

1760. 155?., the gift of Mr. Joseph Williams and others, the in- 
terest whereof to be annually disposed of in bread for the 
poor. 

Incorporated, with Governors and Trustees. 

1443. The great Alms-house, for a tutor and six poor people, the 
gift of Ellis Davy, citizen and mercer; with land and tene- 
ments for their maintenance, the gift of Ellis Davy, citizen 
and mercer of London. 

1599. The Hospital of the Holy Trinity, for a schoolmaster, warden, 
and twenty-eight poor men and women of Croydon and 
Lambeth, with lands and tenements for their maintenance, 
the gift of Archbishop Whitgift. 

1619. Two messuages or tenements in Northampton, given to the 
said hospital by the Rev. Dr. Prethergh. 
A rent-charge, payable out of a tenement in St. Paul's Church- 
yard, London, given to the said hospital by Mr. Edward 
Barker, amounting to 61. 13s. 4d. 
3-5ths of a farm at Mitcham in Surry, given to the said hos- 
pital by Ralph Snow, Esq. 
A tenement and piece of ground in the Butcher Row, given 

to the said hospital by Mr. Richard Stockdale. 
A dinner, yearly, to the said hospital, for which the Fish- 
mongers' Company in London pay 13s. 4d., and put into 
the box 10s. t 

* Left by Lady Ann Allot, of Sunderstead, circa 1600. 
f Left by William Barlow, D.D., Bishop of Lincoln, who died in 
1690. He also bequeathed 13s. 4c?. per annum to a licensed preacher, 



214 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

A farm at Horn, in Surry, for binding poor boys apprentice, 

the gift of Archbishop Laud*. 
1714. A school-house at Croydon, and two farms at Limpsfield, for 

educating 10 boys and 10 girls; the gift of Archbishop 

Tenison. 
1760. 195/., the gift of the Earl of Bristol and several inhabitants of 

Croydon, for enlarging the little Alms-house. 
17. 10*., the annual gift of Wigsell, Esq., Sanderstead, 

to be given in bread to the poor widows, on St. Thomas' 

day. 
1790. 163/. 13s. 6d. Sperc ts .; the interest of which to be applied 

annually to poor families of this parish ; the gift of the Rev. 

East Apthorp, D.D., late vicar of this parish. 

On another Table, in the Church. 

1831. 100/., the gift of Mrs. Mary Allen, of Camberwell; the inter- 
est whereof is to be annually disposed of in bread for the 
poor of this parish, at Christmas-day, for ever. 



Other Benefactions to the Town of Croydon. 

Archbishop Parker bequeathed to the poor of 
Croydon and Lambeth, 30/. — Archbishop Grin- 
to preach a sermon in Croydon Church, on the 22nd March, yearly, 
being the day on which the hospital of Archbishop Whitgift was 
founded; and to the vicar of Croydon 3s, 4d. for giving notice of the 
sermon on the preceding Sunday. The money to be paid by the 
Fishmongers' Company. 

* In 1635 Archbishop Laud purchased, for 300/., a messuage and 
lands at Albury, Warwickshire, in the name of Sir John Tonstall 
and others, the rent of which estate to be applied to the apprentic- 
ing poor children of this parish. The estate was afterwards sold, 
pursuant to a decree of the Court of Chancery, in 1656, for 225/.; 



BENEFACTIONS. 215 

dall bequeathed, to purchase lands for the be- 
nefit of the poor of the Little Alms-house, 50/. ; 
with which sum the vicar and churchwardens for 
the time being purchased a copyhold house in 
Waddon, 11th November, 1583. Also, to the 
poor of Croydon and Lambeth, 20/. — Archbishop 
Whitgift left, by will, to the poor of Croydon, 
20/.— Archbishop Bancroft, ditto, 20/. — Arch- 
bishop Abbot, ditto, 20/. — Archbishop Laud, 
ditto, 10/. — Archbishop Juxon, ditto, 100/. — 
Archbishop Sheldon, ditto, 40/. — Archbishop 
Tenison, ditto, 40/.; also, to Whitgift's Hos- 
pital, 100/. — Archbishop Wake, for binding out 
apprentices, 40/. — Archbishop Seeker, for the 
poor of Croydon, 500/. 3 per cent. Consols. 

Jasper Yardley, Gent., who died 31st May, 
1639, and lies buried in Guildford Church, gave, 
as appears from the inscription on his tomb, to 
the parishes of Croydon, St. George's, South- 
wark, and Lambeth, 40/. each, " to be put 
fourth yearly, gratis, by their churchwardens, in 
5/. parcels, to the severel poor of each parish, for 
stock to set them to work, or for tradinge. He 
also gave legacies to all the poore of the Hos- 
pitallis of Guildford and Croydon." 

which sura, augmented by the addition of 35L, raised by the trustees 
among themselves, purchased the above-named farm. 



APPENDIX. 



No. 1. 



Instrumentum factum super Appropriatione Ecclie de 
Croydon § Assignatione Manerii de Woddon, daf 
16 Jan 1390. Reg. Courtnay , fol. 179. b. 

In nomine Dni, Amen. Anno ab incarnacbe ejusdem 
secundum cursum & computacoem ecctie Anglican' 
millmo ccc mo nonage simo, indicbe xim a , pontificatus 
sanctissimi in Christo pris & dni nri dni Bonifacii divi- 
na providen' pape Noni anno secundo, mensis Januarii 
die sexto decimo, in ecctia pochiali de Croydon, Win- 
tonien' jurisdicois immediate reverendissimi pris dni ar- 
chiepi Cantuarien' innror' notarior' & testium subscrip- 
tor' presencia coram venli in Xpo pre ac dno dno Ro- 
berto Dei gfa Londonien' epo in causa sive negocio 
unionis annexionis sive incorporacois dee ecctie pochi- 
alis de Croydon ad collacoem reverendissimi pris dni 
archiepi Cant' notorie ptinentis prioratui de Bermond- 



218 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

sey ordinis Cluniacen' ac concessions grangie ejusdem 
prioratus manerium de Woddon nuncupate mense ar- 
shiepali Cantuar' judice uno delegato juxta formam sub- 
scriptam a pdco dno nro pape sufficient' & legitime de- 
putato in pdca ecctia ad infrascripta faciend' judicialit' 
sedente, reverendissimus in Christo pater & dnus dnus 
Wilfrnus Courtenay Dei gra archiepus Cantuarien' to- 
cius Anglie primas & aplice sedis legatus, & religiosus 
vir frat' Johannes prior pdci poratus de Bermondesey 
personalit' g seipsis & nominib' ppriis, ac discreti viri 
mag' Walterus Gybbes licentiatus in legibus & frat' 
Thomas Fakenham monachus pfati poratus pcuratores 
ejusdem prioris & conventus de Bermondesey nomibus 
eordem dnor' suor' judicialit' comparentes, quasdam fras 
aplcas predci dni nri pape sanas & integras, omni pror- 
sus vicio & sinistra suspicoe carentes, more Roman' 
cur' cum filis sericis & sigillo plumbeo bullatas } con- 
cernentes unionem, annexionem, sive incorporacoem 
ecctie, ac concessionem & assignacoem grangie sive 
manerii pdcor' eidem Dno Londoniens' Epo judicii de- 
legato, una cum pcurator' dcor' ^curator' sigillo eor' 
con' judicialit' psentarunt, quas quidem Iras aplicas & 
quod quidem ^curatoriu idem reverendus pat' dnus epus 
delegatus reverent' recepit, & illas ac illud cora eo pub- 
lice legi fecit, quor' tenores in haec verba secuntur. 

Tenor Bullae. " Bonifacius Epus servus servor' Dei ve- 
nerabili epo Londonien' salt' & aplican ben'. Sincere 
devocois affectus quern venerabilis frater noster Wilt- 
mus archiepus Cantuarien' & dilecti filii prior & con- 
ventus de Bermondesey Cluniacen' ordinis Wintonien' 
dioc' ad nos & Roman' gerunt ecctiam promeretur ut 



APPENDIX. 219 

votis eor' illis presertim p que mense archiepalis Can- 
tuarien' & dci prioratus utilitas procuratur favorabilit' 
annuamus. Exhibita siquidem nobis nup p pte ar- 
chiepi ac prioris & conventus pdcor' peticio continebat 
quod iidem prior & conventus habent quoddam mane- 
rium sive quandam grangiam ad manerium de Woddon 
nuncupatu cuidam alteri manerio prefate dioc' ad dctam 
mensa ptinent' contiguum, ac pochialis ecclia de Croy- 
don ejusdem dioc' & collacoem archiepi Cantuarien' pro 
tempore existentis pertinet, quodo^ si ecctia prioratui 
uniretur & manerium de Woddon, predicte mense pre- 
fatis concederetur & assignaretur, in utilitatem & com- 
modum prioratus & mense cederet eordem. Quare p 
pte dictor' archiepi ac prioris & conventus nobis fuit 
humiliter supplicatum ut alicui prelato in partibus illis 
committere & mandare dignaremur quod de pmissis di- 
ligenter se informet, & si p informacoem hujusmodi re- 
periret quod unio & connexio hujusmodi si fierent in 
utilitatem & commodum prioratus & mense pdcor' ce- 
derent, auctoritate rire ecciiam prioratui uniret, annec- 
teret, & incorporaret, ac manium de Woddon pdce 
mense pfatis de consensu & voluntate dcor' prioris & 
conventus, eciam absq^ licentia vel consensu abbatis Clu- 
niacen' & prioris de Caritate p priorem soliti guberna- 
ri dicti ordinis Matisconenem & Antisiodern' dioc' pro 
tempore existentiu & conventu monasterior' a quo qui- 
dem monasterio de caritate pfat' prioratus dependet, 
concederet & assignaret. Nos igitur hujusmodi sup- 
plicationibus inclinati fraternitati tue de qua in hiis & 
aliis spialem in dno fiduciam obtinemus p aplica scripta 
committimus & mandamus quatenus sup pmissis aucto- 
ritate iira te diligenter informes, & si p inform acoem 



220 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

hujusmodi ita esse reperis prenominatam ecctiam cujus 
centum cum omnibus juribus & ptinenciis suis eidem 
poratui cujus octingentar' marcar' sterlingor' fructus 
redditus & proventus secundu communem estimacoem 
valorem annuum ut ipsi prior & conventus dci poratus 
asserueruntnonexedunt, auctoritate pdca ppetuo unias, 
incorpores, & annectas. Ita quod cedente vel decedente 
rectore dee ecctie qui nunc est, vel ecctiam ipsam alias 
quomodott dimittente, liceat ipsis pori & conventui po- 
ratus possessionem dee ecctie apprehendere & ex tunc 
ppetuo retinere, alicujus licentia sup hoc minime requi- 
sita. Reservata tamen de fructib 9 , redditib 9 , & <pven- 
tib 9 ejusdem eccte £ ppetuo vicar io in ea instituendo 
si ilia que ab olim reservata fuisse dicitur congrua non 
sit congrua porcone de qua idem vicarius possit congrue 
sustentari epalia jura solvere & alia incumbencia sibi 
onera supportare, cujus quidem porcois ab olim utpfer- 
tur reservate collacio ad rectorem dee ecctie pro tem- 
pore existentem ptinet, & quam seu illam que p te vi- 
gore psentiu reservetur si postquam unio, annexio, & 
incorporacio hujusmodi effectum sortiti fuerint ad dci 
archiepiejusq^ successor archiepor Cantuarien' quietant 
<p tempore collacoem ppetuo volumus ptinere. Et ni- 
chilominus pfatum manerium de Woddon cum omnibus 
juribus & ptinenciis suis pdee mense de consensu tamen 
& voluntate dctor' poris & conventus ipsius poratus 
eciam absq^ licentia abBis Cluniacen' & poris qui sunt 
£ tempore & conventus de Caritate monasterior' pfator'. 
Cum ille qui Cluniacen' & ille qui de Caritate monas- 
teriis degunt ad presens iniquitatis alumpno Roberto 
olim Basilice duodecim apostolor' de urbe presbytero 
cardinali nunc antipape qui se Clementem septimum 



APPENDIX. 221 

aususacrilegonominarepresumitnator' adherere & fave- 
re presumant eadem auctoritate concedere & assignare 
|>cures. Inducens p te vel alium seu alios pdcum ar- 
chiepum vel pcuratorem suum ejus nomine in corpora- 
lem possessionem maiiii de Woddon ac ipsiusjurium & 
ptinenciar' pdict' & defendas inductum sibique faciens 
de ipsius manerii de Woddon fructibus, redditibus, 
pventibus, juribus, & obvenconibus universis integre 
responderi; contradictores p censuram ecciasticam ap- 
pellacone postposita compescendo. Non obstantibus 
si aliqui sup provisionibus sibi faciendis de pochialibus 
ecciiis vel aliis beneficiis ecctiasticis in illis ptibus spe- 
ciales vel generales aplice sedis vel legator' ejus Iras 
impetrarint etiam si p eas ad inhibicoem, reservacoem, 
& decretum vel alias quomodott sit processum, quos 
quide tras & pcessus ear' vigore habitos vel habendos 
ad pfata ecctiam volumus non extendi sed nullum p 
hoc eis quoad assecucoem pochialium ecctiar' & bene- 
ficior' alior* prejudicium generari seu si aliquibus con- 
conjunctim vel divisim a dicta sit sede indultum quod 
interdici, suspendi, vel excommunicari non possint p li- 
tems aplicas non facientes plenam & expressam & de 
verbo ad verbum de indulto hujus mencoem & quibusli- 
bet aliis privileges & indulgenciis ac iris aplicis gene- 
ralibus vel specialibus quorcunq^ tenor' existant p que 
presentibus non expressa vel totaliter non incerta ef- 
fectus eor' impediri valeat quomodolib' vel differri & 
de quibus quorq^ totis tenoribus de verbo ad verbum 
habenda sit riris literis mentio spialis. Nos enim ex 
nunc irritum discernimus & inane si secus super his a 
quoquam quavis auctoritate scienter vel ignoranter con- 
tigit attemptari. Dat' Rome apud sanctum Petrum 



222 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

quinto cal' Octobr', Pontificatus nri anno primo. Pa- 
teat universis (procuratoriu prioris & conventus de 
Bermondesey, qui nominant Mag' Walterum Gybbes in 
legibus licentiatum, & dnum Wilftnum Baunton reef 
ecclie de Harewe, & fratrem Thomam Fakenham mo- 
nachum confratrem suum, conjunctim & divisim, le- 
gitimes ^pcuratores suos ad comparendum coram Ro- 
berto epo Lond' & supra dcas Iras aplicas de unione 
ecctie de Croydon conventui supradco facienda, & ma- 
nerio de Woddon mense archiepali assignando dcto 
dno psentendas & ad omnia alia pficienda quae dcum 
negocium spectant', dat' in capitulari 16 Jan. 1890), & 
in hujusmodi procuratorio tenor dee bulle totalit' inseri- 
tur ante dat' ejusdem |>curatorii. Post quor' quidem 
trar' apticar' & <pcuratorii pdcor' recepcoem & lecturam, 
pdcus frater Johannes prior prioratus de Bermondesey 
cor' pfato dno epo judice delegato palam & expresse 
|)testabatur ac <ptestatur quod p aliqua ipsius in causa 
sive negocio pdet' coram eodem dno judice delegato 
comparicoem psonalem noluit nee intendebat, non vult 
nee intendit, potestatem pdcor' ^curator' suor' in aliquo 
revocare, & subsequent' incontinenti memoratus dnus 
archiepus & pfati Mag' Walterus & frater Thomas 
pcuratores noibus dcor' dnor' suor' pdcum dnum epum 
judicem delegatum cum instantia requisiverunt, & eor' 
quitt requisivit, quatenus idem dnus epus judex delega- 
tus in causa sive negocio supradco juxta omnem, vim, 
formam, et effectum dctar' trar' aplicar' procedere, et 
ea omnia et singla que sibi in eisdem Iris aplicis exequen- 
da et facienda committuntur exequi et facere dignare- 
tur, unde pdcus dnus epus judex delegatus volens ut 
asseruit mandatis aplicis humilit' obedire villam de 



APPENDIX. 223 

Croydon Wintonien' dioc' in cujus pochiali ecctia inibi 
consistent^ ad infrascripta expedienda judicialit' sede- 
bat et sedet in quern locum pdict' dnus archiepus et 
mag' Walterus ac frater Thomas <pcuratores nominibus 
dcor' dnor' suor' expresse consencierunt et quitt eor' 
consenciit eo quod idem locus est ex vulgi opinione in- 
signis communiter reputatus, ac ex aliis certis et legiti- 
mis de causis ad ejus animum ut asseruit moventibus 
ad dctor' dni archiepi ac magri Walteri et f ris Thomae 
<pcurator' peticoem in hac parte pronunciavit et <pnun- 
ciat insigne et pro informacoe dci dni epi judicis dele- 
gati in hac pte habenda pdcus dnus archiepus p se et 
nomine |>prio ac pscripti magr Walterus et frater Tho- 
mas pcuratores nomine quo supra coram eodem dno 
epo judice delegato quam plures testes fide dignos ad 
probandum suggesta et deducta in dcis Iris aplicis fu- 
isse et esse vera judicialit' pduxerunt et pducunt. Quos 
quidem testes sepe dictus dnus epus judex delegatus 
ad ipsor' dni archiepi et ^curator' pdcor' peticoem ad- 
misit et admittit quibus quidem testibus ad sancta Dei 
Evangelia p eos corporalit' coram ipso dno delegato et 
de ipsius mandato tacta juratis idem dnus judex dele- 
gatus eosdem testes sup ctis articulis a tenore pdcar' 
aplicar' extractis diligent' et singillatim examinavit, ac 
eor' dca et deposiciones in scriptas p eos notarios sub- 
scripts in causa sive negocio hujusmodi coram eo ac- 
torum scribas redigi fecit, et deinde memoratus dnus 
archiepus et pfati magr Walterus ac frat' Thomas <pcu- 
ratores in nomine ,pcuratorio quo supra quandam ordi- 
nacoem congrue porcionis vicarie dee ecciie de Croy- 
don ab antiquo dotate factam p recolende memorie 
dnum Johannem Stratford quondam archiepum Cantu- 



Ordinatio por 
cionis vicarii 
ab olim facta. 



224 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

arien' ipsius sigillo roboratam cora pdco dno epo judice 
delegato judicialit' exhibuerunt et quilt eor' exhibuit 
tenorem qui sequitur continentem. Johannes permis- 

■n sione divina Cantuarien' tocius Anglie primas 
> et aplice sedis legatus cunctis Christi fideli- 

J bus salt' in dno consequi sempiternam; ex 
nostro mero pastorali officio nup subditos nros dnum 
Joftem de Tonneford rectorem poch' ecclie de Croydon 
et dnum Jofiem de Horstede ppetuum vicariu ejusdem 
nre jurisdictions immediate ac pemptor' exhibend' ordi- 
nacoem porcoem diet' vicarie si quam haberent certis 
die et loco competentibus citari fecimus coram nobis, qui 
juxta vocationem hujusmodi cora nro in ea pte commis- 
sario in judicio comparentes asseruerunt se nullam ip- 
sius vicarie ordinacoem habere, petieruntque a nobis 
instanter ut dcam vicariam faceremus in certis et indu- 
bitatis dee ecclie porcoibus ordinari, unde nos tarn sup 
vero valore annuo fructuum reddituum et pventuum 
dee eccie quos idem rector pcipit et pcipere consuevit 
quam super vero valore annuo alior' pventuum, obla- 
conum et obvenconum ejusdem ecclie p ipsius vicarium 
hactenus pceptor 1 ac eciam de et sup omnibus et sin- 
glis oneribus pfate ecctie incumbentibus p pochianos 
dee eccte plenam in ea pte noticiam obtinentes primitus 
inquiri fecimus, et deinde de consensu rectoris et vicarii 
pdcor' porcoem vicarie dee ecclie consideratis ipsius fa- 
cultatibus et oneribus ipsi ecclie incumbentibus ac ce- 
teris in ea pte undique ponderandis, modo infra scripto 
ordinandam duximus et taxandam ac eciam declaranda 
quid et quantum pfatus vicarius et successores sui pci- 
perent de fructibus, redditib' et <pventibus ecclie me- 
morate, necnon que onera dctis rectori et vicario ac 



APPENDIX. 225 

successoribus suis incumbere debeant in futur'. Ordi- 
nam' siquidem et statuimus quod rector dee ecctie qui 
p tempore fuerit omnes decimas majores, viz. Blador' 
feni, sylvae cedue, et lignor' arbor' ceduar' excisar' in- 
fra fines et limites dee pochie pvenientes ac eciam om- 
nia mortuaria viva occasione sepulture cujuscunq' ad 
dcam ecctiam obventura et spectantia et spectare Va- 
lencia seu debencia qualitercunq' medietatemq' deci- 
mal agnor' decimabilium qui p capita decimari debent 
de consuetudine vel de jure infra pochiam ecctie an- 
tedce pvenienciii, nee non pensionem octo marcar' p 
equal' porcoes in festis Sti Michaelis natal' dni pasch' 
et nativitatis Sti Jofris Baptiste pcipiend' annis singlis a 
vicario dee ecctie qui p tempore fuerit, et vicaria pdea 
nee non reddit' fructus et pventus dee ecctie jura, com- 
moditates et quascunq' res alias ad dcam ptinentes seu 
spectare debentes ecctiam vicario dee ecctie inferius 
non ascripta pcipiat et habeat in futur'. Item qd dcus 
vicarius et successores sui ifcm vicarii habeant et tene- 
ant mansum solitum dee vicarie cum gardino adjacente 
eidem. Item habeant et pcipiant vicarii dee ecctie no- 
mine vicarii pdei omnes et omnimodas oblaciones in dca 
ecctia de Croydon et in quibuscunq' locis infra fines, 
limites, seu decimacones ejusdem situatas qualitercunq' 
factas et faciendas seu ad earn vel in ea pvenientes et 
imposter' pvenire valentes modo, causa, occasione, vel 
colore eciam quibuscunq'. Item habeant et pcipiant 
dci vicarii nomine dee vicarie medietatem decimar' ag- 
nor' decimabilium p capita ut pmittitur decimandar' p 
vicarium dee ecctie colligendor' et denarios ^venientes 
ex vel p illis qui non fuerint p capita decimati de con- 
suetudine vel de jure, nee non et omnes decimas lane, 

Q 



226 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

vitulor' porcellor' aucar' anatum, columbarum, casei, 
lactis, lacticinii, herbagii, pomor' piror r et alior' fruc- 
tuum in gardinis et ortis crescentiu eciam pedefossator' 
nee non lini, canapis, ovor' mercimonior' et molendinor' 
omnibus infra fines et limites seu decimationes pochie 
dee ecciie jam constructor' et imposter' construendor' 
omnesq' alias minutas decimas pfato rectori non ascrip- 
tas qualitercunq' spectantes et ptinentes ad eccliam an- 
tedcam, nee non quecunq' legata relicta imposter' dee 
ecciie que ipsius rectores seu vicarii possent de jure vel 
consuetudine pcipere et habere, ac eciam mortuaria 
omnia mortua seu non viva occasione sepulture cujus- 
cunq' ad dcam eccliam obventura seu spectare debentia 
quovismodo <pveniencia infra pochiam ecciie antedce, 
singuli autem vicarii pfationes deserviendi p se et alium 
presbyterum ydoneum pfate ecciie in divinis onus eciam 
ministraconis, panis, vini, luminar* et omnium ac singu- 
lar' que ifcm ad celebracSnem divinor' in rebus vel per- 
sonis necessaria fuerint, nee non et onus invencois seu 
exhibicois et reparacois libror' sup pellicior' vestimen- 
tor' et ornamentor' dee ecciie que p eccliar' rectores 
seu vicarios inveniri seu exhiberi vel repari de jure vel 
consuetudine debent aut solent, ac insup onus solutio- 
nis decimar' et aliar' imposiconum quarumcunq' que 
Anglican' ecciie qualitercunq' imponi continget p quem- 
cunq' quavis occoe vel causa juxta taxacionem dee vi- 
carie que ad decern libras sterlingor' taxari dinoscitur, 
et quam per sic taxata haberi volumus et mandamus 
ordinamus suis sumptib' subeant et expensis, onera ve- 
ro repacois et refeccionis cancelli dee ecciie, viz. in tec- 
tis et muris intus et exterius ac eciam cetera onex'a or- 
dinaria et extraordinaria eidem ecciie incumbencia 



APPENDIX. 227 

pfatis vicariis non ascripta supius rector dee ecctie qui 
<p tempore fuerit ppetuu subeat et agnoscat; ordinamus 
insup qd dcus vicarius et successores sui ifcm vicarii 
juramentum ad sancta Dei Evangelia tacta corporaliter 
pstent rectori qui est seu erit imposter' ecctie memorate 
qd in pmissis vel circa ea seu eorum aliquod fraudem 
seu dolum nullatenus adhibebunt p se, alios, vel alium 
publice vel occulte, et qd de hujusmodi porcone recto- 
ris nichil sibi penitus usurpabunt: reservamus insup' 
nobis et successoribus nris dcam vicariam augmentandi 
et diminuendi si et quando nobis et eis expedire vide- 
bitur plenariam potestatem. Dat' apud Maydenston 
2 idus Junii A.D. mili mo ccc° quadragesimo octavo, et 
nre translacois quinto decimo. Post cujus quidem or- 
dinacois exhibicoem venerabilis vir magr Jones' Gode- 
wyk Legum doctor rector dee ecctie de Croydon pe- 
rantea publice reputatus cor' pfato dno epo judice de- 
legato judicialiter comparens non vi nee metu ductus 
sed ex sua certa scientia et spontanea voluntate dixit 
et in judicio fatebatur qd postquam habuit dcam ec- 
ctiam de Croydon fuit et est pochiale de Clyve Rossen' 
dioc' jurisdiccionis immediate dci dni archiepi auctori- 
tate ordinaria canonice et pacifice assecutus, et ea 
,ppter possessionem dee eccte de Croydon vacuam co- 
ram eodem dno epo judice delegato pure et sponte di- 
missit ac dimittit totaliter re et verbo; tandem vero 
pdcus dnus epus judex delegat' in dca causa sive nego- 
cio ulterius pcedens inspectis per eum ut dixit et dili- 
genter recensitis dcis exhibitis et pductis, ac sufficienti 
et diligenti informacoe ut eciam duxit p earn recepta 
et habita sup omnibus et singlis in pfatis Iris aplicis ex- 
pressas ad finalem dee cause sive negocii expedicbem 

Q2 



228 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

ad peticoem et de expresso consensu pdcor' dni archi- 
epi ac magri Walteri et fris Thome pcurator' cor' eo- 
dem dno epo judice delegato in judicio comparenciu de 
concilio eciam juris peritor' qui sibi tunc temporis as- 
sistebant dcam pochialem ecctiam de Croydon cum om- 
nibus suis juribus et ptinenciis universis, salva pdca 
congrua porcone £ vicario ejusdem ecclie pdco poratui 
auctoritate aplica, eidem dno epo judici delegato in hac 
pte commissa p suam sententia univit, annexit, et in- 
corporavit, unit, annectit, et incorporat, ac pfatum ma- 
neriii de Woddon cu suis juribus et ptinenciis univer- 
sis pdce mense archiepali assignavit, et assignat, ac 
porcionem vicarie infra scripte congruam fuisse et esse 
pnunciavit et declaravit, et pterea in dca causa sive ne- 
gocio juxta vim, formam, et effectum trar' aplicar 5 
pdcar' pcessit et pcedit in hunc modum. 

In Dei nomine, amen. Auditis et intellectis meritis 
cause sive negocii unionis, annexionis, sive incorpora- 
conis ecctie pochialis de Croydon Winton dioc' ad col- 
lacoem dni arch' Cantuar' ptinentis poratui de Ber- 
mondesey ordinis Cluniacen' ac concessionis et assigna- 
cois grangie ipsor' manerium de Woddon nuncupate 
mense archiepali Cantuar' auctoritate aplica faciend' 
que seu quod coram nobis Roberto Dei gra Lond' epo 
sanctissimi in Xpo pris et dni dni nri Bonifacii divina pvi- 
dencia pape noni in causa sive negocio pdco judice de- 
legato aliquamdiu vertebatur et pendet indecis'. Quia 
p testes coram nobis pduct' juratos et examinatos et alia 
legitima documenta invenimus maneriu sive grangiam 
de Woddon pdct' dctor' poris et conventus manerio de 
Croydon mense archiepali Cantuar' dee dioc' ptinenti 
contiguum fuisse et esse, ecctiamq' ipsam de Croydon 



APPENDIX. 229 

pdct' ad collaconem dni archiepi Cant' ptinere, ac qd 
si ecctia ipsa poch' uniretur poratui supradco, et ma- 
nerium de Woddon supradcum pdce mense archiepali 
concederetur et assignaretur, in utilitatem et commo- 
dum poratus et mense cederet eordem quodq' fructus, 
redditus, et j>ventus dee ecetie poch' de Croydon cen- 
tum ac prioratus pdct' octingentar' marcar' sterP valo- 
rem annuum secundum communem estimacoe non ex- 
cedunt, porconemq' vicarie dee ecetie de Croydon ab 
antiquo dotate, de qua idem vicar' poterit sustentari 
epalia jura solvere, et alia onera sibi incumbencia sup- 
portare congruam et sufficientem, ceteraq' omnia et 
singula in iris aplicis nobis in bac pte directis suggesta 
ad quas referimus vera fuisse et esse. Eapropter nos 
Robertus epus judex unicus delegatus pdcus Deum p 
oculis habentes, Xpi nomine primitus invocato, de con- 
silio jurisperitor' nobis assidenciu, de et sup pmissis 
plenius informati, prehabitis et observatis in hac pte de 
jure vel consuetudine requisitis, pfatam ecctiam de 
Croydon dee dioc' jam vacantem cum suis juribus et 
ptinenciis universis eidem poratui auctoritate aplica no- 
bis in hac pte commissa ppetuo unimus, annectimus, et 
incorporamus, ita quod liceat priori et conventui pfati 
poratus corporalem possionem dee ecctie apprehendere 
et ppetue retinere, ac ins up pfatum maneriu de Wod- 
don cum omnibus juribus et ptinenciis suis pdce mense 
archiepali Cant' de consensu et voluntate dcor' poris et 
conventus expressis eadem auctoritate aplica concedi- 
mus et assignamus, dcumq' reverendissimu in Xpo pa- 
trem dnum Wiltmum archiepum vel ^curatorem suum 
ejus noie in corporalem possessionem manii de Wod- 
don pdei ac ipsius juriii et ptinenciar' pdcor' inducen- 



230 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

dum fore decernimus, porconemq' dee vicarie de qua 
idem vicarius possit congrue sustentari, epalia jura sol- 
vere et alia incumbencia sibi onera supportare ab anti- 
quo dotatam congrua sufficientem fuisse et esse |>nun- 
ciamus et declaramus in hiis scriptis. Demum vero 
plecta pdcum dnum epum judicem delegatum sententia 
supdea pdcus reverendissimus pater dnus archiepus ac 
pfati mag' Walterus et frater Thomas ^curatores noie 
dctor' dnor' suor' coram eodem dno epo judice delega- 
to judicialit' comparentes unioni, annexioni, sive incor- 
poracioni ecclie, ac concessioni, et assignacioni manerii 
pdcor' aliisq' omnibus et singlis pdcum dnum delega- 
tum et coram eo ut pmittitur actis habitis atq' gestis 
consencierunt et consenciunt ac consenciit et consentit 
quilt eordem, idemq' dnus archiepus p discretum virum 
dnum Johannem Parker capellanum familiarem ejus- 
dem dni archiepi rectorem ecctie Sti Pancratii London 
^curatorem suum ad subsequens pstand' juramentum 
coram pdeo dno delegato in iiror' notarior' actor' scri- 
bar' et testiu subscriptor' psencia apud acta hujusmodi 
constitutum ibm psentem et mag' Walterus et frat' 
Thomas <pcuratores pdei in animas dcor' dnor' suor' ad 
Sta Dei Evangelia p eosdem <pcuratores et eorum 
quemit corporalit' tacta corporale pstiterunt juramen- 
tum pdcum viz. Jofres Parker quod memoratus dnus 
archiepus et pdei mag' Walterus et fratr' Thomas qd 
pfati prior aut conventus unioni, annexioni, sive incor- 
poracoi ecclie aut concessioni etassignacoi maner' pdcor' 
quovismodo contravenire aut eas vel earum aliquam in 
toto vel in pte infringere non psument aut psumet ali- 
quis eordem; et quia pdcus dnus epus judex delegatus 
ad ulteriorem executionem in hac pte facienda p tunc 



APPENDIX. 231 

lit asseruit intendere non valebat, venerabilibus et dis- 
cretis viris dnis Jofei Elme ecctie pochialis de Lamhyth 
dcte Wintonien' et Jofei Parker pdeo dee ecctie Sti 
Pancracii Londonien' diocesium rectoribus tunc ibm 
psentibus et cuilibet eorum p se et in solidum ac qui- 
buscunq' capellanis Cantuarien' ^pvincie conjunctim et 
divisim ad inducendum pfatum dnum archiep' vel ejus 
^curatorem seu <pcuratores |) eo in corporalem posses- 
sionem pfati manerii de Woddon juriumq' et ptinenciar' 
suor' universor' vices suas commisit idem dnus delega- 
tus prout harum serie committit cum cujuslibet coher- 
cionis canonice potestate; sup quibus omnibus et sin- 
gulis pfati reverendissimus pater dnus archiepus et 
dnus epus judex delegatus et pdei mag' Walterus ac 
fratr' Thomas <pcuratores requisiverunt nos notarios 
subscriptos coram memorato dno delegato in causa sive 
negocio pdeo actorum scribas publicum seu publica in- 
strumentum seu instrumenta conficere <p loco et tem- 
pore opportunis. Acta sunt hec prout sup scribuntur 
et recitantur sub anno indiction' pontificatu mense, die, 
et loco pdcis; presentibus venerabilibus et discretis vi- 
ris magro Jofee Shillyngford legum dre canonico ecctie 
Wellen', dnis Jofee Mandut de Bradestede et Wiltmo 
Freman de Plukle Cantuarien' dioc' pochialium eccti- 
arum rectoribus, et dno Wiltmo Garnonn Lincolnien' 
et dno Wilfrno Yngylby Roffen' dioc' capellanis, nee 
non Thoma Burgh et Jofie Grede clericis Eboracen' 
et Exonien' dioc', Testibus ad pmissa vocatis speciali- 
ter et rogatis. 



232 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



Liceniia regia ad appropriationem et assignacionem 
eccVie de Croydon et maner 9 de Woddon. 

Ricardus Dei gra rex Anglie et Francie et dominus 
Hibern'. Omnibus ad quos psentes Ire pvenerint sal- 
tern. Sciatis qd de gra nra spali concessimus et licen- 
tiam dedimus p nobis et heredibus nris quantum in no- 
bis est dilectis nobis in Xpo pori et conventui Sti Sal- 
vatoris de Bermondesey qd ipsi maneriu de Woddon 
cum ptinenciis in com' Sun*' qd de nobis tenetur in ca- 
pite ut pcella dotacois dci poratus de Bermondesey 
qui de fundacone ^genitor' nror' et nro patronatu ex- 
istit, dare, concedere, et assignare possint venerabili 
in Xpo patri et carissimo consanguineo nro Wilrmo 
archiepo Cantuar' in excambiu <p advocacone ecctie de 
Croydon in eodem com' eisdem priori et conventui et 
successoribus suis p pfatum archiepum danda et assig- 
nanda Kend' et tenend' dctum maneriu de Woddon 
cum ptninent' pfato archiepo et successoribus suis in 
excambiu pdct' imppetuu et eidem archiepo qd ipse 
pdcum maneriu de Woddon cum ptninen' a pfatis pri- 
ore et conventu in escambiu pdct' recipe possit et te- 
nere pdco archiepo et successoribus suis imppetuum 
sicut pdcum est tenore psenciu similit' licenciam dedi- 
mus spalem, Statuto de terris et ten' ad manu mortua 
non ponend' edito seu aliis pmissis non obstantibus. 
Nolentes qd pfati por et conventus vel eor' successores, 
aut pfatus archiepus seu successores sui, racione statuti 
pdci seu alior' pmissor 5 p nos vel heredes nros justicia- 
ries, escaetores, vicecomites, aut alios ballivos seu mi- 
nistros quoscunq' inde occasionentur, molestentur in 



APPENDIX. 233 

aliquo, seu graventur, salvis tamen nobis et heredibus 
nris serviciis inde debitis et consuetis. In cujus rei 
testimonium has Iras iiras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste 
meipso apud Westmonasterium tercio decimo die De- 
eembr' anno regni nri quarto decimo. 

J? bre de privato sigillo, 

Faryngton. 

Haec indentura facta apud Bermondeseye die Lune 
in prima septimana quadragesime anno regni regis Ri- 
cardi secundi quarto decimo int' venerabilem dnum 
"VVillmum archiep' Cantuar' ex una parte & porem & 
conventum Sti Salvatoris de Bermondeseye ex pte al- 
tera, de composicione advocationis vicarii ecclie de 
Croydon in com' Surr'. Testatur quod collacio & pa- 
tronatus vicarie dee ecclie de Croydon ad dcum dnum 
archiepum & successores suos solum & in solidum in 
ppetuum ptinebit & spectabit, ad quam quociens cum 
vacaverit iidem dnus archiepus & succ' sui duas ydo- 
neas psonas pfatis pori & conventui nominabunt, quar' 
alteram iidem prior & conventus quam sua discretione 
duxerint eligendam pfato dno archiepo & suis succes- 
soribus presentabunt ad eandem vicariam p ipsum dnum 
archiepum & successores admittend' & instituend' vi- 
carium, in eadem; ad qua quidem convencionem & 
composicionem ex pte dci dni Wifimi archiepi bene & 
fideliter faciend' pdet' dnus archiepus obligat se & suc- 
cessores suos & ad quam quidem convencionem & com- 
posicionem ex pte dctor 5 poris & conventus bene & 
fideliter faciend' pdei prior & conventus obligant se & 
successores suos p psentes. In cujus rei testimonium 



234 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

psentibus indenturis ptes pdci sigilla sua alternatim ap- 
posuerunt, dicto loco, die, et anno supradict'. Qui 
quidem vicarius & ipsius singuli successores in eadem 
ante suas inductiones juramentum manualit' coram pri- 
ore vel sub-priore & conventu de Bermondeseye in do- 
mo sua capitulari pstabunt qd ipsi <p temporibus suis 
non impugnabunt p se, alium vel alios clam vel palam 
arte vel ingenio composicionem seu ordinacionem in 
aliqua sui pte olim factam p venlem patrem Johannem 
nup archiep' Cantuarien' inter rectorem de Croydon & 
ipsum vicarium & successores suos, vel usurpabunt 
sibi vel vicarie sue pdce aut usurpare pmittent quate- 
nus in eis est aliquod jus vel commodum quod ad pdct' 
religiosos de Bermondsey apud Croydon dinoscitur 
ptinere, sed erunt eorum adjutores <p posse & ecclie de 
Bermondeseye fideles. 



No. II. 

Excerpta ex Computis Ministrorum. 
Comp' general' de temp' Edv' II. 

Ric' de Fairford, ball' ^ 1 de Croyndene . 
Tho' de Bunchesham, ppos'3 

In curtilagio fodiendo et plantando . xiii d. 

In vinea et Hbariis reparandis . . ix &. 

In iiii sure' ad domos curiae . . vi ofc. 

In mcclxxv cendulis clavis, & in con- 
redio, & stip' carpent' coopientiu 
warderobam .... xvs. iiid. 



APPENDIX. 235 

In bordis & clavis & lattis & in mere- 

mio & in stip' carp' repancium salsa- 

riam xxvid. oft. 

In bordis & lattis, & clavis & stip', & 

conredio carpentar', cooptor' & re- 

coopientiu grangias de Croynd' & 

stablu & borias & fccaria & pistrin', 

& in claustro subfulciendo, & in co- 

quina emendanda . . . xxxiiiis. viiid 

In emendis xxx carectatis carbonis & 

cariandis, a Burstowe usq Croydon . Iiiis. ixd. 



Ex comp > Joli Pieres attornatf Adce Bochers ppoi de 
Croydon, afo Midi 23 Ric. II. ad id' 1 Hen 9 IK 

In xiini 1 de rofnayl empt' £ novo stablo 

& nova cania ibm p m l xiii d. . xiii s. 

Et in cc de sixpenny nayl . . . xii d. 
Et in xxvii carect' zaftli empt' ad id' p 

cujult carect' iiid. . . . vis. ixd. 

Et in iiinn" lyflatch empt' ad id p ml vi s. xviii s. 
Et in al' mmm lyflatch empt' p ml' vi s. 

viiid xx s. 

Et in m rechelath empt' . . .vs. 
Et in xlviii carect' trae rub' p pariet' 

dauband' p qualibet carect' . . viii s. 
Et in i carect' serais empt' p parietib' 

daubandis . . . . xiiiid. 

Et in xliml' tegul' empt' p cooptur' 

eord' p ml' iiiis. vid. . . . ixt. iiiis. vid. 
Et solut* RoBto Kene carpentar', in 



236 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

partem c>venc' suae f ctur' dctor' no- 
vor' staftlar' & cam' . . . xis. 

Et in xxi qr' calc' c,bust' empt' ad id' p 

qrt' xvid. . . . . xxviiis. 

Et in cariag' eord' p qr' ii d. . . iii s. vi d. 

Et in un' nov' mur' juxt' nov' granar' 
erga caamiter' emendand' . . vi d. 

Itm in iiii xx waynscot bord' empt' p host' 

& fenestr' nov' stabl' . . . xxiiis. 

Et p cariag' eord'de Lond' usque Croy- 
don . . . . . .iis. iiiid. 

Et in vi regulbord empt' ad idem p pec' 

viid. . . . . . iii s. vid. 

Et in md planchisnail empt' ad id p 

c. vid viis. vid. 

Et in m whitnail empt' ad id . . vs. 

Et in c gross cl' empt' p manger' stabl' xx d. 

Et in 1 clavis ejusd' sort' empt' ad id' . x d. 

Et in i hole 9duct' p i die p foraminib3 
in terr' faciend' p postib' manger' im- 
ponend' iiiid. 

Et solut' Rofcto Kene carpentar', p ea 
qua? supius comp' in part' c;venc' suae 
p magno stablo . . . .Is. 

Et in v c whitnail empt' ad id' . . ii s. vi d. 

Et in cc gross whitnail empt' p magno 
ostio magni stabli et p magna port' 
manii p c. xviii d. . . . iii s. 

Et in rastris cariand' a Bristowe usq 

Croydon viis. vid. 

Et in i carp' Cjduct' p ii dies ad pen- 



APPENDIX. 237 

dend' mag' porta manii et pendend' 

vta rastr' in veter' stabl', & etiam 

emendand' ctos defect' palicii circa 

stagnu in gar din', p diem vi d. . xii d. 

Et in ccc saplath empt' <p nov' granar' 

& £ cam' sup granar' p c. vd. . xv d. 

Et in i hole 9duct' p v dies et dim' p 

sep' inde faciend' int' angulum coqui- 

nae & stagnu dni de pco dni p diem 

iiiid xxiid. 

Et in i cart' 9duct' p iii dies tarn ^me- 

remio cariand' p le hale ex opposito 

cellar' vers' fibariu quam ex oken- 

stuble, «p nov' pariet' faciend' int' 

magn' stablii, et thalam' privat' ad 

finem stable, p diem xxd. . .vs. 
Et in viii nov' estrychbordis empt' p 

nov' hostio cellar' «p qualibet' bord' 

iiid. oB. iis. iiiid. 

Et in c alb' clavis empt' <p dco hostio . vi d. 
Et in i serrur' cum ob & annul' cum le 

plate, i latche & i katche empt' £ 

dco hostio ii s. ii d. 

Et in viii qr' calc' ust' empt' tarn <p 

mur' dci hostii defect' repand' quam 

p fundamentis subt' lat' de hale altit' 

iiii ped' faciend' p qrt' xvi d. . . x s. viii d. 

Et in pdct' viii qrt' cariand' de Halynke 

& Le Combe ad dct' maner' £ sin- 

gul' duobus qrt iiii d. xvi d. 

Et in iii hoib' 9duct' p i diem, tarn £ 

fundamentis nov' pariet' int' duo 



238 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

stabl' fodiend' quam p puteis p post' 

in terr' fodiend', cuilibet p diem iiii d. xii d. 

Et in mm teg plan' empt' tarn' p le 
hale pdct' qua nov' pariet' teguland' 
p ml' iiii s. vid. . . . . ixs. 

Et in mcccccc lath' empt' tarn p dct' 
nov' hale qua pariet' hit' stablu la- 
tand' p c. viii . . . . x s. viii d. 

Et in mmmmmm roffnayl empt' tarn 
pdct' hale quam p nov' pariet' in plur' 
locis dupliciter latand' p ml' xiii d. . vi s. vi d. 

Et in c blaknayl empt' ad id' . . vi d. 

Et in ii qrt' calc' ust' empt' p cooptura 

de la hale & dct' nov' pariet' p qrt' xvi ii s. viii d. 

Et in cariag' ejusdem . . . iiiid. 

Et in ii qrt' zabli fodiend' & cariand' 

ad id' . . . . . xvi d. 

Et in i tegulat' cu garcione suo 9duct' 
p x dies p le hale & dct' pariet' tegu- 
land' in gross viii s. iiiid. int' se p 
diem x d. ..... viii s. iiiid. 

Et in i carpentar' 9duct' p i diem p 
rackes in vet' stabl' emendand' . vi d. 

Et in vi carect' tree rub' cu cariag' empt' 
£ dct' pariet' dauband' tarn de la hale 
quam nov' pariet' pdct' p qualibet 
carect' ii d. . . . . xii d. 

Et in ii hoibus 9duct' p iiii dies p dct' 
hale & pariet' dauband' cuilib' p diem 
iiiid ii s. viii d. 

Et in stip' Rob' Kene carpentar', p 
dct 5 nov' pariet' faciend' ex 9vent' 
fcta in gross . . . . xx s. 



APPENDIX. 239 

Et solut' eid' Rofcto de denar' sibi deb' 
de anno peed' p f cura nov' stabli ex 
c>ven' f ca in gross . . . xx s. 

Et solut' eid' £ diet' hale faciend' ex 
c/ven' fca in gross xxxs. unde ,p se- 
nescall' hospitii xvs. . . . xxxs. 

Et solut' Wilfrno Mason <p fundamentis 
de dct' hale faciend' ad altit' iiii ped' 
ex cjvent' fact' unde p senescah" hos- 
pit' vis. viiid. . xiiis. iiid. 

Et in xxvi teg' concav' empt' p pariet' 

pdet' crestand' .... xiii d. oft. 

Et in i bushell tigulpyn emp' . . vi d. 

Et solut' Wilfrno Mason «p i nov' hos- 

tio petrar' de caine faciend' & ponend' 

ex 9vent' fact' in gross xii s. unde p 

senescall' hosp' vis. viiid. . . xiis. 

Summa xxxiii lib' xiiii d. und' p 

senescall' hosp' . . . xxviiis. iiiid. 



An Imperfect Roll, de ann, 34 Hen. VI. 

In divsis expens' hoc anno fcis sup 
repacbe rh. de Croydon, ut in denar' 
solut' <p cariag' xxi nil' tegul' de 



Bewle usq^ man' pdcum 


. xiiii s. 


c rofetyle . . . 


. his. iiiid. 


x I5z tylepynnes p T5z xv d. 


. iiii s. iid. 


c hertlath 


. viid. 


Clav' de divsis sortibus 


. xxis. xd. 


xxx qrt' calc' ust' p qrt' xiiii d. 


. XXXV s. 



240 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Simul cu fodicoe zabul' & car' ejusd' . iiii s. 
iiii t. ii s. xi d. 

Et in denar' solut' Rofito Tyler & iii 
soc' suis, laborant' sup repacoe do- 
mor' infra in iBm, viz. sup cooptur' 
eardem nee non iiii° laborariis eisd' 
tegulatoribus servient' in opibus pre- 
dcis divs' vie' pdict' gduct' infra' dem 
temp' hujus compi . . . iiiil. xviis. ofr\ 

Et in denar' solut' Jolii WyldeJegula- 
tori & servient' suo, opant' sup re- 
pacoe domor' infr' in pdcum p iiii d' 
dies ad xiiiid. p diem inter se . iiii s. viiid. 

Et in denar' solut' Ada? Pykman, |) 
9ducoe caractae suae cu ii laborar' la- 
borant' in cariand' una bigat' lapid' 
voc' fryseton de Mestlim usq' m 
pdcum iii s. iiiid. 

Et in denar' solut' Tho' Wareham car- 
pent', j) divs' laborib' p ipm fcis in- 
fra m pdem, viz. |) fcura opis car- 
pentriae lect' dni cu merem' & tabul' 
empt' ad id opus, nee non <p repacoe 
dom' carbonii simul enm emendacoe 
divs' defectuii aliar' domor' iBm & 
fctura divsor' necior' hoc anno . xxvii s. ii d. 

Et in denar' solut' eid' Tho' Wareham, 
p mmdcccc hertlath, p c. viid. xvis. 
xid. et cccl ped' de evesbord p c. 
xx d. vs. xd. empt' et expendit' sup 
repacoe domor' in i15m . . xxiis. ixd. 

Summ' xil. xviis. xd. ob\ 



APPENDIX. 241 

Et in divs' exp' hoc arm' fcis sup repacoe 
dom' de le portmote situat' infr' vill' de 
Croydon, ut in meremio, tegul', calce, za- 
bulo, clav' de divs' sortib', luto, & aliis 
rebus empt' & expendit' in op' pdco, 
simul cu 9duccoe carpentar', tegulator', 
daubator' & alior' laborar' ibm laborant' 
p divis' dies infra temp' hujus compi . xl s. 

Et in denar' solut' «p conduccoe unius ca- 
rectae cu duobus laborar' laborant' in ca- 
riando palic' de bosc' apud Waldyngham 
usq'clausur' parci de Croydon p ii dies ad 
xx d iiis. iiiid. 



Computus Adce Pykman % Ric Pyhman pcarum de 
Croydon. Without date, but probably subsequent to 
33 Hen. VI. 

Et in denar' solut' £ refect' xlix pticat' vet' 
sep' clausur' pci pdci in divs' locis pci 
ibid' hoc anno, unde ex opposito le Quas 
hoc xxxix ptic', ex opposit' le Brake v 
ptic', & versus le Pondes v ptic', singui' 
ptic' i den' . . . . . iiii s. i d. 

Et solut' Ricardo Kyppyn facienti et opanti 
xxiii ptic' et dim' nov' sepis juxta le 
Pound, singui' pticat' ii d. ob\ . . iiii s. viii d. 

Et solut' eid' Ricardo <p fctur' xxviii pticat' 
nov' sepis fct' apud le Bromhill p pticat' 
iid. ob. . . . . . . vs. xd. 

Et solut' eid' Ricardo <p fcur' vi pticat' 
nov' sepis fact' apud Horsepondfold . xv d. 



242 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Et eid' £ fctura ii pticat' nov' sepis erga le 
Gretbrake . . . . . v d. 

Et solut' eid' emendant' et reficient' xlvi 
pticas vet' sepis p ipsu fee apud Tode- 
berys crod' pticat' ad i d. . . iii s. x d. 

Et solut' eid' Ricardo 9duct' p iiii dies sup 
emendacoe defect' in divs' locis pci pdei 
p diem iiii d. oB. .... xviii d. 

Et solut' Wiltmo Atte Hethe & Nicolao 
Cooper, p lxxxviii ptic' nov' palic' p ipsos 
fct' in le Rowting ptic' iiii d. ofc. . . xxxiii d. 

Et solut' p Cjduccoe x bigat' car' dct' palic' 
a Tillingdowne usq' pcii dni p i diem 
cuitt eor' p diem ii s- . . . xx s. 

Et solut' |) car' vi bigat' des postes, railes, 
& shorys de okestob' ad pcu dni quatt' 
bigat' vi d. iii s. 

Et solut' <p fcur' duor' novor' psepiu or- 
dinat' q feno imponendo ad dam' pas- 
cend' in niem . . . . . iii s. vi d. 

Et solut' ^ cariagio dcor' psepiur' a Sand- 
teswad usq' in pcii pdcu. . . . vi d. 

Et solut' |) cariagio unius bigat' feni a prato 

usq' pcum pdcum .... viii d. 

Et solut' i laboratori 9duct' cu i equo 
tractante spinas & subboscum ad manus 
operarii p vi dies p diem v d. . . ii s. vi d. 

Summa iiiit, vs. ixd. 



APPENDIX, 



243 



vi s. v d. 
ix s. 

vis. 



Compuf Ric' PyJcman, Cust 9 m de Croydon afo 9 Mich 9 
6 Ed. IV., ad id' 7 Ed. IV. Ex Comp 9 General' is- 
tins anni. 

In divs' expens' hoc anno fcis sup repacoe do- 

mor' m ibm ut in denar' solut' p iiii or m 1 d te- 

gul' xviii s. 

v qrt' iiii Bz calcis ustse p qrt' xiiii d. 
Stipend' unius tegulatoris p xviii dies 

Et servientis sui p idem temp' 

Alterius tegulatoris p xxiiii dies ad vd 
p diem. .... 

xxiiii t. soldure pt' 115, iiii oB. 

Una bigat' arenae . • 

ii big' zabuli . ... 

Una big' luti 

Stipend' unius daubatoris p iiii dies 

c findul' . , 

m rofentyle .... 
Empt' et expend' sup reparacoe domor' m 

pdci, lxii s. ii d. 
Et sol' <p reparacoe sup dom' portmote ibm . 



x s. 
ix s. 

iiii d. 
vid. 
iiid. 
xviii d. 
viii d. 
viii d. 



(torn) 



Computus Joti Lytyll Cusf m § pci de Croydon, afo 9 
Mich 9 13 Ed. IV. ad id. Ex Comp 9 Genal 9 istius anni. 

In expens' hoc ann' fcis sup repacoe fn ibm 

ut in denar' solut' p v qrt' calcis ustse . vs. xd. 
mmm tegul' cu cariagio . . . . xiis. 

Factura de les rakkes & mangers in stabulis 

iBm . . . . . . . iiis. 

v bigat' zabuli . , . . . xd. 

R2 



244 



HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



ii bigat' luti 
Stipend 5 unius daubatoris p ii dies 
Erectio unius posti in gardino 
Et tegulatio muri in gardino ifcm 
Pro clavis de divsis sortibus 



vid. 
xd. 
iid. 
vid. 
vd. ofi. 



Summa xxiv s. id. oft. 

Et £ iiii novis clavis <p divs' hostiis iom, & 

emend acoe ii serrar' iftm . . .... 

Summa xxv s. ix d. ofc. 



In divs' expens' fcis sup clausur' pci ifcm, ut 
in denar' solut' p fcura c paxillar' 

Carig' eard' de Okestubble 

Circa i bigat' de Edders 
Tractur' de Tynet 

fcura xlii ptic' sepis ibm 
Et fcura xxiiii ptic' sepis circa prat' dni 



. iiiid 




. vd. 




. vd. 




. ii s. 


vi d 


. xs. 


vid 


ii . ii s. 




xvi s. 


iid 



A Generall Roll, Imperfect, without date, circa 14 
Ed, IV. 

Cust' M. del 
Croydon. / 

In denar' solut' Tho. Warham carpentar', 
|) fcura opis carpentriae stall in foro de 
Croydon de novo ex Cjvencoe secii fca in 
grosso ...... liiis. iiiid. 

Et sol' JoHi Fermour Shyngler ,p po sicoe 
vi in. shyngle sup dct' stall p cooptura 
eor' p mill' iii s. viiid. . . . xxiis. 

Et sol' pfato Tho' Warham p fctur' de lez 



APPENDIX. 245 

bynnes in panetria <p pane impan- 

end', ex c/vencoe in grosso . . xxxiiis. viiid. 

Et sol' eid' Tho' <p fcura & posicoe 
unius somer in le pastry ibm, & fcura 
unius muri desup . . . . xs. 
Fcura unius copborde in aula . iii s. iv d. 
Et £ divs' opibus fcis sup altare in ca- 
pella ad ponend' jocalia desup . ii s. 

Summa xv s. iiii d. 

Et sol' eid' p meremio cum sarratione 
ejusd', & <p findul' <p pstah" in foro v s. 

Et sol' Jom' Plomer <p soldur' & emen- 
dacoe gutter in divs' locis fh . . viii s. 

Et in denar' solut' Rob' Tyler opant' 

sup cooptur' domor' m ibm . . xiii s. iiii d. 

Et sol' <p ii clavibus £ hostio columbar' 
ibm iiid. 



Comp i J oh. Lytlyll Cus? m pci de Croydon afo Midi 
22 Ed. IV., ad id'IRic.IIL Ex Comp' GenaV 
hujus anni. 

In expens' hoc anno fcis sup reparacoe 

domor' m pdci prout patet, &c. . . lx s. iii d. 

Et in denar' solut' <p fcura unius stadii palic' 
p clausur' pci ibm hoc anno . . . xs. 

Summa lxxs. iiid. 



246 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



General Roll, Imperfect, without date, temp. 
Hen. VIII. 

In denar' solut' <p divs' repacoib' hoc 
anno fact' sup man' de Croydon, viz. 
p fcura iiii or portar' cu suis ptinen', ac 
p vadiis div' sor' carpentarior' tegula- 
tor', & alior' laborator' cum divsis ne- 
cessariis . , . . . xt. xvs. iid. 

Et in denar' solut' p fcura ii furlong pa- 
liciae circ' pcu. iBm, cum cariag' ejusd' 
palic' . . . . . xxixs. iid. 



Comp' Christoph 9 Hore gen 9 , prcepos 9 m de Croydon a 
fo' Mich 9 1644, adjm Mich 9 1645. Ex Rot 9 Ge- 
neral, istius anni. 

Et de 40 1. de firma situs palatii cu omnib' dom', aedif ' 
stabul', columbar', gardin', pomar', piscar', & al' 
ptin', nup in manu <ppia archiep' Cant' et modo co- 
mitis Nottingham. 

Et de 661. 13 s. 4d. de firma pci cu cappic', bosc', 
subbosc', & terr' boscal', vocat' le Parke coppice, 
cont' insimul p estim' 170 acras, una cu dom' man- 
sional' in eadem, ac horr', stabul', & al' edific' ad 
eandem spectantib'. 



APPENDIX. 247 



No. III. 



Extract from the Minister's or Bailiff's Accounts of 
the Colleges, Chantries, Free Chapels, $c, in the 
Counttj of Surrey , 3 Edw. VI., deposited in the Aug- 
mentation Office at Westminster. 

Nup« canteria) Et r' compm de xx s. de firma unius 

b'te Marie in V ^ , * 

croydon. j tenti lorn juxta le Church-gate cu ptinen 
in tenura Thome Comporte, p ann' ut supra sol' ad ii 
anni tmos, viz. a festo Annunc' fcte Marie virgis et Sti 
Micnis arcfci; de vis. viiid. nup rec' de firm' domus 
mansionis Cantie pdct' cu oihibz et singlis s' ptiri' mo- 
do vel nup in tenura incubentz ibm vidett p tempus 
hujus compi non r', eo qd conceditur Wilhno Warde 
& hered' suis imppm a Festo Sti Micliis arcfei anno 
regni dni regis nunc Edwardi VI ti scdo, ^ut p Iras 
ejusdem dni regis paten' dat' xviii° die Aprilis anno 
regni mats sue iii°, tenend' de pfato dno rege, hered' 
et success' suis in lifio socagio absq^ x ma , ut in eisdem 
iris patent' plenius pz. Sed r' de vis. de firm' unius 
tehti jacen' in Pickelake cu ptin' in tenura .... Rob- 
sonne p ann' sol' ut sup. Et de xvis. de firm' unius 
tenti cu ptin' in tenura Jonnis Curts, p ann' sol' ut su- 
pra. Et de viii s. de firm' unius tenti in tenura Rici 
Alford p ann' sol' ut sup. Et de xx s. de firm' iii co- 
tag' cu ptin' in tenur' Thome Thornetonne p ann' sol' 
ut sup. Et de xii d. de firm' unius gardini in bor' pte 
ville de Croydon jacen' juxta teiitum Rici Draps p ann' 



248 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

sol' ut supra. Et de vi s. viiid. de firm' unius teriti 
ibm in tenura Thome Parker p ann' sol' ut supra. Et 
de ii s. de firm' unius cotag' jacen' int' tentum voc' Le 
Crowne p ann' sol' ut supra. Et de iiiis. de firm' 
unius teriti jacen' int' shopam ptin' ad templum de 
Croydon in le Bocherrowe p ann' sol' ut supra. Et de 
xv s. de firm' iii tentor' in le Bocherrowe in tenura sot 
ut supra. Et de xv s. de firma unius teriti in foro in te- 
nura Francis Reswid p ann' sol' ut supra. Et de 
xiii s. iiii d. de firma unius teriti in tenura Jonnis Bald- 
wyn. De xix s. viii d. nup rec' de reddit' divs' pcelf 
terr' et tent' subsequent videlt de firma unius croft 
ifim cont' v acr' juxta pcum de Croydon in tenura 
Jonnis Hatcher ad xs. p ann'; firma unius horrei ibm 
in tenura Roberti Comporte vi s. viii d. p ann'; firma 
unius gardini apud Stakecrosse in tenura Johnis Reade 
ad ii s. p annum; et de firm' unius acr' jacen' apud Ad- 
descombe modo in occupacone Elizabethe Heme vid' 
ad xiid. p ann' scit' p tempus hujus compi non r'. Eo 
qd omnia et singla pmiss' cu ptin' int' at' concedunt' 
Thome Reve et Georgio Colton ac hered' eor' imppm, 
a festo Sti Micliis archi anno regni dni regis nunc 
Edwardi VI" scdo, ^ut p pz tras ejusdem dni regis pa- 
ten' dat' x mo die Maii anno regni mats sue iii cio , tenend' 
de pfato dno rege & success' suis in libo socagio ab 
qx ma , ut in eisdem tris paten' plenius patet sed r' de 
xiid. de firma unius acr' terr' jacen' in quodam campo 
yocat' Teyntefeld in tenura pdci Joiinis Hatcher. Et 
de vii s. de firm' iiii acr' di' terr' in campo voc' Breche- 
feld in ten' pdct' Jotinnis Hatcher. Et de vid. de 
firm' di' acr' terr' jacen' in campo voc' Teyntefeld pd* 



APPENDIX. 249 

in tenura supdci Jofiis Hatcher. Et de xii d. de firma 

unius gardini jacen' in le olde towne in tenura 

Et de xiii s. iiii d. de firm' iii acr' terr' insimul 

jacen' in Waddon Warshe in tenura Roberti Crostinge 
p ann'. Et de iis. de firma unius acr' ter' jacen' in 
Northstakefeld in tenura Wilhni Tomson p ann'. De 
viit. nup rec' de reddit' divs' tentor' subsequen', videit 
de firma ii tentor' in London in pochia Sti Micfiis in 

Cornehyll in tenura Dommer ad lxvis. viiid. 

p ann' firma ; unius tenti in pochia in tenura relicte 
Nicfii Wedouz ad xlvis. viiid. p ann'; et de firma 
unius tenti in Trynytie Lane in London, in tenur' Ja- 
cobi Chastleyn ad xxvi s. viii d. p ann', scilt p tempus 
hujus compi non r'. Eo qd omnia pmissa cu eor' ptin' 
hit' al' concedunt' Thome Watson et Wilfrno Adys ac 
hered' eor' imppm, a Festo Sti Micfeis Arcfii anno reg- 
ni dni regis nunc Edwardi VI U scdo, ^ut ppz tras ejus- 
dem regis paten' dat' xxv die Marcii anno regni mat' s' 
iii cio , tenend' de pfato dno rege, hered' et succ', in lfbo 
burgag' civts hre Lond' absq^ x ma , ut in eisd' iris pat' 
plenius patet. 

Sm a> viii. xv s. xd. 

Nup' cant'ia^ Nee r' xxxvii s. ii d. nup rec' de reddit* 

S'ciNich'iin V * 

Croydon, j &fi s ' pcellar' terr' & tent' subseq', vidett 
de firma domus mancionis Cant' pd' cu ptin' modo vel 
nup in tenura incumbents lbm ad vi s. viii d. p ann' 
firm' di' acr' pastur' in Benshamfeld ad vis. p ann'. 
Et de firma unius messuagii cu ptin' in tenura Thome 
More ad xxx s. p ann' scitt p tempus hujus compi non 
r\ Eo qd omnia et singla pmiss' cu eor' ptin' int' al' 
conceduntur Anthonio Aucher militi et Henrico Pol- 



250 HISTORY OI« CROYDON. 

sted ac hered' eor' imppm, a festo Sti Micfiis arcfii an- 
no regni dni regis nunc Edwardi VI d secundo, et non 
ulterius, put p pz Iras ejusdem dni regis patent' dat' 
x° die Marcii anno regni mats s' iii°, tenend' de pfato 
dno rege, hered' et successor' s', in lifto socagio absq^ 
x" 14 , ut in eisdem iris paten' plenius patet'. Sed r' de 
iiiit. de firma unius hospicii voc' Le Crowne cu iiii acr' 
terr' ac' ix swathes pdci & unius gardini ifcm p ann'. 
Et de xxxiiis. iiiid. de firm' unius mess' cu ptin' in 
Chelmerden de iiiit. iis. nup annuatim rec' de redd' et 
firm' divs' mess' terr' et tent' subscript', vidett unius 
mess' cu ptin' in tenura Joliis Pratt ad xx s. viii d. p 
ann', altius tenti cu vii acr' terr' in tenura RoBti Ing- 
ram ad xl s. p ann', unius tenti cu ptin' in tenura Jofiis 
Fisher ad xiiii s. p ann' ult' ii s. <p uno pvo cto non ven- 
dit' vidett p tempus pdcum non r'. Eo qd dnus rex 
nunc EdwardusVI. p tras s' paten' dat'xviii die Aprilis 
anno regni s' mats iii mo , int' al' dedit & concessit eadem 
pmiss' cu ptin' Wiltmo Warde & hered' s', a festo Sti 
Michis arctii anno ii° domini regis pdci imppm absq^ 
x m sive aliquo alio pinde reddend' solvend' vel faciend' 
put in eisdem tris paten' plenius pz'. Sed r' de x s. 
de firm' unius mess' cu gardino in teha Edwardi Cow- 
per, de xii s. nup ret', de firm' unius tenti cu ptin' in 
teria Wiltmi Milles geno, scitt p tempus hujus compi 
non r'. Eo qd dnus rex nunc Edwardus VI tus , p tras 
s' paten' dat' x° die Maii anno regni s' mats iii°, int' al', 
dedit & concessit dcum mess' cum omibz s' ptin' 
Thome Reve et Georgio Cotton & hered' s' a festo 
Sti Micliis arcfti anno scdo dci dni regis impp' absq^ 
x ma s j ve a liq U0 a li ^inde reddend', solvend', vel fa- 
ciend', put in eisdem tris paten' plenius patet. Sed r' 



APPENDIX. 251 

de ii s. p redd' unius pvi clausi in teha Jofiis Fyssher ut 
pz dcm librum. Et de xx s. de firm' unius tend ifim 
voc' le Brodgate cum ptin' in tenura JoKnn' Lane. Et 
de x s. de firm' unius tenti cum ptin' in tenura Johann' 
Crowne. Et de vis. de firm' unius shap in le Fishe 
mkett in tenura Roberti Wrythesley, ut pz dcum li- 
brum supvis'. 

S'ma viiii. xvid. 



No. IV. 



[From " Charts Miscellanea," in the Archives of 
Lambeth, Vol. XIII. No. 16.] 



Com? Sur'. 

Parcell of the Possessions of the late dissolved Arch- 
bishopricJce of Canterbury. 

All those free rents of assize belong- 
ing to the said mannor of Croyden, 

per arm. . .-■'•-. . . lviii t. xiiis. vid. 
All those nines of borough olders . xxiiii t. xi. ob\ 
The farm of all that the scy te mannor 

or se of Croydon, with a 

chappell wainscotted, a grain ary, 

and all houses, outhouses, court 

yards, and other yards and stables 

thereunto belonging, encompassed 



252 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

with a faire court yard on the 
north, a small running water east 
and south, and the church yard 
west, and of all that great gar- 
den and fruite howse, with all 
other gardens, orchards, pidgeon 
howse, waters, and three fish 
ponds fenced on the west with 
a brick wall on the south, with a 
small running water and a hedge 
on the east, with another hedge be- 
longing to the howse keepers mea- 
dowe, on the north, with a water 
which parteth the aforesaid gar- 
dens and the said meadows, per 
ann xlt. 

The farme of all that meadowe called 
Birch Meadowe, contayninge by 
estimason 4 acres and an half, per 
ann. vit. xvs. 

The farme of all that meadowe called 
Stubbs Meadow, containinge, by 
estimason, 30 acres, per ann. . xxxi. 

The farme of all those two meadowes 
called Northbury Meadows, con- 
taininge 18 acres, per ann. . xvii. xiiis. 

The farme of all that howse called 
the Parke Howse, situate and be- 
ing in Croyden Parke, with all 
howses, one barne, one stable, one 
orchard and garden thereunto be- 



APPENDIX. 253 

longing, containinge in the whole 
two acres or thereabouts, per ann. vi \. 

The farme of all that feild called Hil- 
lyfield, lying on the south of the 
said Park House, containinge, by 
estimation, 6 acres or thereabouts, 
per ann xxx s. 

The farme of all that meadowe called 
Parke Meade, containinge 16 acres, 
per ann. . . . . . xit. iiiis. 

The farme of all that close of pasture 
called Mareclose, containinge 11 
acres, per ann. . . . . cxs. 

The farme of all that feild of pasture 
called Oakefeild, containinge 6 
acres, per ann. .... lxs. 

The farme of all that feild of pasture 
called Roundhill, containinge 11 
acres or thereabouts, per ann. . lxxiii s. iiii d. 

The farme of all that feild of pasture 
called Wheatefeild, containinge 4 
acres and an half, per ann. . xlv s. 

The farme of all that feild of pasture 
called Ruttingefeild, containinge 
18 acres, per ann. . . . ixt. 

The farme of all that feild of pasture 
called Layfeild, containinge 8 acres, 
per ann. ..... iiiit. 

The farme of all that feild of pasture 
called the Lowefeild, containinge 4 
acres, per ann. . . . . xls. 



254 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

The farme of all that field of pasture 
called Lower Goers, containinge 10 
acres, per ann. . . . . c s. 

The farme of all that field of pasture 
called Cowpast, containinge 13 
acres, per ann vi t. x s. 

The improvement of Bushy Parke, 

being grubbed, per ann. . - . xt. xvs. 

The farme of all that field called 
Bushy Parke, containinge 34 acres, 
3 roods, and 20 perches, per ann, . vil. vs. 

The farme of all that close called 
Oatefield al' Pickedfeild, contain- 
inge 6 acres, 1 rood, 24 perches, 
per ann lx s. 

The farme of the vesture of all that 
coppice called the Parke Coppice, 
containinge 15 acres, per ann. . lxxv s. 

The farme of the vesture of all that 
wood called Biggin Great Coppice, 
containinge 64 acres, 3 roods, 21 
perches and an half, per ann. . ix t. xv s. 

The farme of the vesture of all that 
coppice called Bewdly, containinge 
22 acres and 20 perches, per ann. lxxiii s. iiii d. 

The farme of the vesture of all that 
coppice called Windalls, contain- 
inge 21 acres and 30 perches, per 
ann lxxs. 

The farme of the vesture of all that 
coppice called Shelverdins, con- 



APPENDIX. 255 

taininge 18 acres, 1 rood, and 10 
perches, per ann. . . . Ixi. xis. 

The farme of the vesture of all that 
coppice called Stakepitt, contain- 
inge 71 acres and 30 perches, per 
ann. . . . . . xit. xiiis. id. 

The farme of the vesture of all that 
coppice called Gravelly Hill, con- 
taininge 21 acres, 2 roods, and 21 
perches, per ann. . . . iiii t. xi s. viii d. 

The farme of the vesture of all that 
coppice called Little Stakepitt, con- 
taininge S acres, 2 roods, and 33 
perches, per ann* . . . xxix s. 

The farme of all that lodge in Croy- 
don Parke, with a barne, stable, 
outhouses, garden, and orchard 
thereunto belonging, after the death 
of Francis Lee, Gentleman, who 
now holdeth the same during his 
life, by a patent thereof, dated the 

25th day of November, a° 1637, as 
keeper of the said parke and reeve 

of the woods belonging to the said 

archbishopricke of Canterbury, in 

the county of Surrey, per ann. . Nil. 
The profits of two faires to be kept . xiis 
All those the royalties of hawkinge, 

huntinge, fowlinge, fishinge, courts 

leet, courts baron, liberties, fines, 

issues, amerciaments, heriots, waifs, 

estrayes, escheats, deodands, tre- 



256 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

sures trove, felons' goods, and 
wrecks of sea, &c. . . . Nil, 

The perquisites and profits of courts 
leet and courts baron belonging to 
the said manor .... Nil. 

The mannor of Croyden is valued to be worth 
cclxxiiiil. xixs. ixd. ob\ 



Timber and Underwoods. 

Fifty-two elms, 5 birch trees, and 1 ash, 
neere about the mansion-house of 
Croyden aforesaid .... xxxt. 

Timber growinge and being upon the 
aforesaid field called Cowpasture . cct. 

Timber pollards and bushes growing and 

being upon Bushy Parke aforesaid . cccc t. 

Timber growinge and beinge upon the 
parke coppice . . . . . xlt. 

Woods and underwoods groweinge and 

being upon the parke coppice aforesaid xxx t. 

Woods and underwoods groweing and 
being upon Biggin great coppice afore- 
said lxxit. 

Woods and underwoods groweing and 

being upon Bewdley coppice aforesaid xxii 1. 

Timber and pollards there . . viit. xs. 

Woods and underwoods groweing and 
being upon Windalle's coppice afore- 
said xxit. vs. 

Timber and pollards there . . x 1. 



APPENDIX. 257 

Woods and underwoods groweing and 
being upon Shelverden's coppice afore- 
said ...... xxit. xis. 

Timber and pollards there . . . vi 1. 

Woods and underwoods groweing and 

being upon Great Stakepitt aforesaid . xxxvi. xii s. 

One hundred and fifty small trees, or 
thereabouts, being timber and pollards 
growinge and being upon Great 
Stakepitt aforesaid . . . xxxt. 

Woods and underwoods growing and be- 
ing upon Gravelly Hill coppice afore- 
said ...... xliiiit. 

Thirty small timber trees and pollards 

there ... ... lxxvt. 

Woods and underwoods growing and be- 
ing on Little Stakepitt aforesaid . xxixs. 

Timber and pollards growing and being 

there ...... iiiit. xs. 

Eighty timber trees growing and being 
upon one wood called Norwood, lying 
in the parish of Croyden, and part 
thereof in the parish of Lambeth . 1 1. 

Nine thousand two hundred oaken pol- 
lards, with the tops and lops, growing 
and being upon the wood aforesaid, 
which wood containeth eight hundred 
and thirty trees .... mmccxli. 

The small spray of all pollards, when the 

same are lopped for coaling, the small 

spray of every coppice wood, as they 

are felled, and all dotard and rotten 

s 



258 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

trees, and the bark of all trees yearly 
felled, being an increase of profit to 
be made of the woods after the death 
of the said Francis Lee, which is cer- 
tified to be granted to him during his 
life, by the patent above mentioned . Nil. 
Timber and timber-like trees upon the 
lease lands of Adam Torlis, Gentle- 
man . . . . . iiiiviiit. xiiis 



iiii d, 



Reprizes uncertain, 



To Francis Lee, by patent dated the 
25th November, 1637, as keeper of 
the park of Croyden, and reeve of the 
woods in the county of Surrey, all that 
lodge in the park of Croyden, with a 
barn, stable, outhouses, garden, and 
orchard thereunto belonging, for his 
life Nil. 

To him, for grass for two cows or oxen 
in the park, per ann. . . . x t. 

To him, for a fee of two pence per diem, 

per ann. lxs. xd. 

To him, more, the small spray of all pol- 
lards, when they are lopped for coal- 
ing, with the small spray of every cop- 
pice wood as they are felled, with do- 
tard or rotten trees, and the bark of 
all trees yearly felled, and allowance 
for making and mending the fences 
about the woods which is not valued . Nil. 

To Ralph Watts, Gentleman, and Sir 



APPENDIX. 259 

George Askew, Knt., all profits, trees, 
and advantages belonging to the house- 
keeper's place, granted to them by pa- 
tent, dated the 10th November, 1630. Nil. 

To Walter Dobson, Gentleman, for his 
life, as steward of the archbishop's li- 
berties in the county of Surrey, the 
moyety of all casuall profits of the said 
archbishop's royaltyes within the said 
county, granted to him by patent, dat- 
ed the 25th November, 1632, and by 
him assigned on the 3rd day of June, 
1636, to Mr. Watts .... 

To John Dendy and Thomas Smith, 
during their lives, as bailiffs of the man- 
nor and libertyes of Croyden, a fee of 
iiii i. yearly, granted by patent, dated 
the 25th January, 1638, to be issuing 
out of the profits accrewing to the said 
mannor, and paid at Lady-day and Mi- 
chaelmas half-yearly, and liberty to 
enter and distrain upon any part of the 
said manor, for default of payment 

thereof iiiit. 

xvij t. x s. 



Mem. — The premises (except the Gatehouse) were 
in the possession of the late Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, and are parcel of the possessions of the said late 
bishoprick 

The extents of the manors are not certified. 



260 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

The quitt rents are collected by reeves yearly cho- 
sen of the tennants, and payd in without allowance. 

Upon the death of every freeholder, oneyeare's quitt 
rent is to be payd. 

Upon alienason, one penny is due by the purchaser 
for fealty, but nothing for releif. 

Upon the death of every coppyholder dying seized of 
any coppyhold lyinge without the four crosses, there is 
due the best beast for a heriott; if he have none, then 
3 s. 6d. in lieu of a dead heriott. 

If a stranger purchase any of the coppyholds, the fine 
is uncertaine; but, upon a descent, the heir is to pay 
one year's quit rent for a fine. 

Upon every surrender to any use or uses, 3 s. 6&. is 
to be paid in lieu of a heriott. 

The several uncertaine profits before mentioned are 
not valued communibus annis by the survey, nor any 
other perquisites or profits of courts or royalties, but 
it is certified that several beadles are to be chosen out 
of the tenants, who are to collect and accompt for the 
same, without allowance. 

The Lord's interest in Shurley Heath common, con- 
taining 300 acres, and in Croyden Heath, containing 
340 acres, and in Thornton Heath and Broad Green, 
containing 20 acres, (in all which commons the ten- 
ants have common sans stint), is not valewed by the 
survey. 

The Lord's interest in Norwood, containing 830 
acres, wherein the inhabitants of Croyden have herb- 
age for all manner of cattle, mastage for their swine 
without stint, and all furze, bushes, broome, and un- 
derwoods, is not valewed by the survey. 



APPENDIX. 261 

The tenn pounds fifteen shillings improvement for 
Bushy Park is over and above the rent reserved ; but 
without the same be first grubbed, the said improve- 
ment is not to be made. 

The yearly value of the premises, with the improve- 
ment of Bushy Park, per ann. 2741. 19s. %d. 

The value of timber pollards and underwoods is 
8356/. \5s.3d. 

The total value of the reprises, during the lives of 
Francis Lee, John Dendy, and Thomas Smith, is 17/. 

The materials of the house to be taken down and 
sold, are valewed at 1200/. 

It is not certified that these values are as the same 
were worth in the year 1641. 

All the advowsons, and all rights of presentation to 
any church or chapell, and all donatives, and also all 
rent and rents reserved upon any demise in being of 
any lands or tenements, part or parcell of the said ma : 
nor, together with the said manor and tenements not 
specified in this particular, and the value of the de- 
mesnes, and all rents in arrear at Lady-day now last 
past, for or by reason of the premisses, and likewise all 
charters, deeds, evidences, or writings, any ways touch- 
ing or concerning the same, are to be excepted. 

This particular is grounded on a survey taken 17 
March, 1646, by Edward Boyer, Esq., and others, 
and is made forth by order of the contractors of the 
12th of April, 1647. 



262 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



No.V. 

[The books from which the following extracts are made are depo- 
sited in the Lambeth Library.] 

In a Book marked at the back " Au. D. N° 4. II" 
p. 339. 

Croydon, Jan. 26, 1652. 

In pursuance of two several orders of the com- 
mittee for reformation of the universities, of the 15 
Jan. 1650, and 28 Jan. 1651, as also an especial or- 
der of the said committee, it is ordered that Mr. 
Lawrens Steele, treasurer, doe from time to time con- 
tinue and pay to Sir William Brereton the sum of 50/. 
for the use of such ministers as have been and shall be 
by him provided to serve the cure of the church of 
Croydon in the county of Surrey, the same to be con- 
tinued till further orders of the said trustees, and to 
be accompted from the last receipt, any order to the 
contrary notwithstanding. 

John Thorowgood, William Skynner, William 
Steele, Richard Younge, John Pocock. 



Ibid. p. 340. 

Croydon, March 4, 1653. 

Ordered, that Mr. Lawrens Steele, treasurer, do 

continue to pay unto Sir William Brereton the yere- 

lysum of 50/., for the use of such as have been and 

shall be by him provided to serve the cure of the 

church of Croydon in the county of Surrey, according 

to the orders of the said trustees, of the 26th January 

last. 

John Thorowgood, William Steele, Richard 

Younge, Nic. Martin, John Pocock. 



APFENDIX. 263 



In a Book marked " Au. G. N> 7, 8 "fol. 689. 

Croyden, May 31, 1654. 
In pursuance of two several orders of the com- 
mittee for reformation of the universities, of the 15 
Jan. 1650 and 28 Jan. 1651, it is ordered that Mr. 
Lawr. Steele, treasurer, doe from time to time pay un- 
to Sir William Brereton, for the use of Mr. Jonathan 
Westwood, minister of Croydon, in the county of Sur- 
rey, approved according to the ordinance for approba- 
tion of publique preachers, the yerely sum of 501., for 
and during such time as the said Mr. Westwood shall 
continue to discharge the duty of the minister of the 
said place, till further orders of the said trustees, to^ 
gether with all arrears of the said 501. per ann., due 
by order of the 26 Sept. 1652. 

John Thorowgood,William Stele, John Browne, 
Richard Yong, John Powick. 



In a Book marked " Au. I. 13. 7," fol. 171. 

I find 251. paid to Jonathan Westwood, minister of 
Croyden, charged upon the revenues of South Ber- 
steed, in Sussex, by an order dated April 2i, 1655. 

Signed by John Thorowgood, Edward Cresset, 
Richard Sydenham, Edward Hopkins, Ra. 
Hall, Richard Yong. 



Ibid. fol. 226, Aug. 13, 1655. 
An order to Mr. Lawrence Steele, treasurer, to pay 
unto Mr. Jonathan Westwood, minister of Croydon, 



264 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

SOL, towards satisfaction of the arrears of the aug- 
mentation to him due from these trustees; and Mr. 
John Silverwood, receiver, is forthwith to pay to Mr. 
Lawrence Steele, treasurer, 30/. for that purpose. 

John Thorowgood, Edward Cresset, John Po- 
cocke, John Humfrey, Richard Yong. 



Ibid. Oct. 11, 1655. 

A further order, dated Oct. 11, 1655, to Mr. Allen, 
receiver, to pay to Jonathan Westwood 41. 8s. , charged 
upon Bartholomews without Chichester, in full satis- 
faction of all such augmentations, allowances, and pay- 
ments, as he standeth charged to pay unto them since 
25 March last. The payments to be made unto them 
to be accounted from their last receipt only. 

John Thorowgood, Ralph Hall, R. Sydenham, 
John Humfrey, John Pococke. 



From a Book marked " Au. K." p. 202, 
29 Feb. 1655. 

Jonathan Westwood, minister of Croydon, petition- 
ing for arrears, upon the humble petition of Jonathan 
Westwood, minister of Croydon, in the county of Sur- 
rey, thereby charging himself with the sum of 131. in 
arrears, for tenths, since the Sth of June, 1649; it is 
ordered, that, upon the said Mr. Westwood his pro- 
ducing a certificate from Mr. Lawrence Steele, trea- 
surer, that he hath received of him the said sum to- 
wards the payment of the arrears of the augmentation, 
the said Mr. Steele by former orders standeth charged 



APPENDIX. 265 

to pay him ; that thereupon Mr. Allen Nye, receiver, 
give unto the said Mr. Westwood an acquittance for 
so much of the tenths of the said vicarage as is in ar- 
rear ; and that the treasurer do likewise give unto the 
said Mr. Nye his receipt for so much money hy him re- 
ceived of the said Mr. Nye for tenths. 

John Thorowgood, Richard Sydenham, John 
Pocock, Ralph Hall, John Humfrey. 



In a Book marked " A. P. N° 9. 29,"/^- 212. 

Croyden, June 9, 1657. 
Whereas these trustees have, by order of the 1 1 
Oct. 1655, granted unto Mr. Jonathan Westwood, mi- 
nister of Croydon, in the county of Surrey, among 
other things, the yearly sum of U. 8s. out of the tythes 
of Bartholomews without Chichester, to he accompted 
from the 25 March, 1655, and the rest of the said 
tythes is hitherto in arrear, so that there is due unto 
the said Mr. Westwood the sum of 81. 16s. for two 
years ending 25 March last, it is ordered that Mr. 
Lawrence Steele, treasurer, pay the said sum of 8/. 
16s. in full satisfaction of the said arrear. 

John Thorowgood, John Humfrey, Ralph Hall, 
Richard Yonge, John Pococke. 



Ibid.fol. 213. 

June 9, 1657. 
An order of the same trustees, that the sum of 41. 
8s. per ann. be transferred and charged upon (and 
from time to time paid to the said Mr. Westwood) out 



266 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

of the rents and profits of the tithes of the sub-deanry 
of Chichester, to hold for such time as he shall dis- 
charge the duty of minister of the said place, untill fur- 
ther orders of these trustees ; and that Mr. Allen Nye, 
receiver, do pay the same to him accordingly. Dated 
June 9th, 1657. 



No. VI. 



Commissio ad Vendicand' Clericos Convictos in Villa 
de Croydon, {From Strypes " Life of Whitgift," 
Appendix, p. 89.) 

Johannes, divina Providentia, &c, dilecto nobis in 
Christo, Samueli Finch, clerico, vicario Vicarie per- 
petue Ecclesie Parochiali de Croydon in comitat' Sur- 
rey, Ecclesie nostre Cathedralis et Metropolis Christi 
Cantuar. jurisdictionis immediate &c. salutem et gra- 
tiam. Ad vendicand. exigend. recipiend. et examinand. 
quoscunq. clericos coram quibuscunq. Justiciariis Do- 
mine nostre Regine, de super Feloniis quibuscunq. in- 
fra Croydon in Com. Surrey Ecclesie nostre Cathedral, 
et Metropolit. Christi Cantuar. praedict. impetitos, indic- 
tatos, sive convictos: Atq. hujusmodi Clericos ad Be- 
neficium et Privilegium clericale in casibus a jure et con- 
suetudine, ac hujus regni Anglie Statutis admissis et 
pprobatis, recipi et admitti, petend. et requirendum: 
Caeteraq. omnia et singula alia faciend. exercend. et ex- 
pediend. que impremissis, et circa ea, necessaria fuerint, 



APPENDIX. 267 

seii quomodo libet opportuna, vobis, de quorum fidelitate 
et circumspectione, et industria in hac parte concedi- 
mus conjunctim etdivisim committimus vices nostras, et 
plenam in Domino, tenore presentium, concedimus po- 
testatem. Vosq. commissarios nostros ad omnia et 
singula premissa exequend. conjunctim et divisim or- 
dinamus, deputamus, et constituimus per presentes. 
In cujus Testimonium Sigillum nostrum apponi feci- 
mus. Dat. 17 die mensis Julii, 158i, et nostre Trans- 
lations primo. 



No. VII. 



Statutes of Ellis Davy's Almshouse. 

Fundatio Hospitalis Pauperum in Villa de Croydon. 
{Ex " Registro Morton," fol. 199 a.) 

Dated at Croydon, 27 April, 1447. 
To all trewe Christen people, these present letters in- 
dented seying or hering, Ellis Davy, citizen and mer- 
cer of the city of London, sendith greting in our Lord 
God everlasting. Knowe ye that I the foresaid 
Ellis Davy, by vertue and auctorite of certain ires pa- 
tentes of our Sovereign Lord the King that nowe is, 
bearing date at Westminster, the 25th of December, the 
year of his reign 2od, by me purchased, have reised up, 
made, founded, and stablished, in the honor of God, 
and of the Blessed Virgin Marie, and of St. John Bap- 



268 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

tist, whose help I have first besought and called to my 
begynnyne, a perpetual Almes-house of vn pouer peo- 
ple, whereof be called by name a tuter, to dwell per- 
petually at Croydon in the shire of Surrey ; that is to 
say, in my messuage with the appurtenaunces by me 
there belded and ordeynid for the same entent, which 
is called myn almes-hous, and it is settuate bytwene the 
tenement of William Olyver late vicar of Croydon, 
which Joh. Ffauxwell there nowe dwellith in, on the 
south partie, and the ryver there on the north partie. 

Also I have put, settee, and ordeigned in the same 
almes-house vn poure people; that is to say, Pers 
Stanlock for tuter, Henry Corde, John Christmasse, 
John Cooke, John Tapcliff, John Shirburne, and Elyn 
Umfrey, for poure people, with the same tuter, to be- 
gyne, take, and have the succession and beneflte of 
the same almes-house and capacite thereof, after the 
fourme and effect as is conteyned in the said lettres 
patentes. 

Also, by virtue as well of the same lettres patentes 
as of the lettres patentes of the full Reverent Fader in 
God John by the grace of God archiebishop of Can- 
terbury, bering date the 17th day of the moneth of 
Februer, the yere of the incarnacion of our Lorde Jesus 
Christe 1443, and of our said Sovraigne Lord the 
King that nowe is 23, and also by the lettres of John 
by the suffraunce of God abbot of the monastry of 
Saint Savyor, Barmundsey, in the shire of Surrey, and 
the Covent of the said monastry, beryng date in there 
Chapter-house the 20th day of the month of December, 
the yere of the said incarnacion 1445, and of our said 
Souvraigne Lord the Kynge that now is 24, as for any 






APPENDIX. 269 

intresse that they or any of theym hath in the said mes- 
suage by me severally purchased. I the said Ellys 
have graunted and assigned by these present lettres to 
the foresaid tuter and poure people, and to his succes- 
sors for his inhabitation and dwellyng for evermore, of 
the chief lords of the fee by service thereof due and of 
right accustomed. 

Also I will and ordeyne, that the same house of poure 
people be called Elys Davie's almes-house of Allimen, 
from the tyme foreward, and that I for verry founder 
thereof be holden and taken for evermore. And that 
the tuter and poure people, and his successors thereof, 
by the name and under the name of tuter and maister 
and of poure people of the almes house of Ellis Davy 
att Croydon, in the shire of Surrey, mowe complete 
and be completed ; and also al manner of actions, 
causes, and querellys, real, personall, and mixtis, of 
what kynde or nature they ben, byfore all manner juges, 
seculer or spirituell persone, and in the same answer 
and be answered, and in the same defend, and that 
they have a comyn seale to serve for the nedis and 
doyngs of the same almes-hous for evermore. 

Also I the said Ellys woll ordeyne that the fore- 
said poure people and his successors shul be men only, 
or els men and women togedre, after the good and 
sadde advise and discrecion of the governours and 
overseers of the same almes-hous undre-wretyn. 

Also I will and ordeigne that A., now vicar of the 
church of Croydon aforesaid, and also the two chirch- 
wardeines of the same chirch, and iv of the moost 
worthi men, householders and parishioners, dwellyng 
and resident within the towne of Croydon, and their 



270 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

successors; that is to say, the vicar and churchwar- 
deyns of the said parish, and iv other of the moost 
worthy men, householders and parisheners, alwaies re- 
sident and abiding within the town of Croydon, be 
gouvernours of the foresaid almes-hous, and gouver- 
nours of the foresaid almes-hous be called; and that 
Richard Ritche, John Cotford, John Reynkyn, and 
John Baron, now masters and wardeyns of the craft or 
occupation of the mercers of London, and their suc- 
cessours, maisters, or wardeyns of the said crafte or 
occupation, which for the tyme shall be overseers of 
the said almes-hous, and overseers of the same almes- 
hous be called for evermore. 

Furthermore, as touching all manner of putting in 
and owte of such tuter and pour people, and alle other 
maner, rule, and gouvernaunce of theim, and of the 
said almes-hous, I reserve it unto mysilf all my lief 
during; and for the executing and mayntenaunce there- 
of after my decease, I stabelish and ordeyne, by these 
present letters, that, as ofte as any avoydaunce, by 
deth or otherwise, fallith in the said almes-hous, of a 
tuter, so ofte alwaies, within xx daies next ensuyng 
after such voydaunce, oon of the said almes-hous con- 
venient and able, if any such be within, and els with- 
oute the said almes-hous of the foresaid town of Croy- 
don; and yf none such convenyent persone to have 
such a rule and governaunce of tuter can be had, nei- 
ther in the said almes hous neither towne of Croydon, 
thenne of some other towne, village, or hamelet nyght 
abowte the foresaid town of Croydon, so that no one 
of the same townes, villages, or hamelets, excede the 
space of iv myle at the moost from the foresaid church 



APPENDIX. 271 

of Croydon, by the said governers, that is to say, the 
said vicar and church-wardeyns, and such iv other 
moost efficient men of the said towne of Croydon, be 
preferred and chosin, and ordeyned tuter of the said 
almes-hous. And yf the foresaid governers be necli- 
gent, and not preferre, chose, and ordeyne such a tuter 
in the fourme aforesaid, within such xx daies sett and 
lymitted to theym, as byfore is rehersid, then I wol 
and ordeyne, that after any suche xx daies so necli- 
gently overpassid, the preferring, chosing, and ordi- 
naunce, yfe the said tuter to the overseers aforesaid of 
the said almes-hous shall only belong and perteyne, 
for to choose and ordeyne of such towns, villages, and 
hameletts aforesaid, and of noon other. 

Provided evermore, that by this ordynaunce no man- 
ner prejudice shall growe or be engendered in any 
wise to the foresaid governors, in other times whenne 
they be diligent within every such xx daies next suy- 
ing every voydance of such tuter. 

Also, I stablishe and ordeyne, that as oft as any 
voidaunce of any of the remnant of the poure people 
being in the foresaid almes house, byside the said tuter 
and poure people, within xv daies next suying every 
such voidaunce, chose another unto them of the townes, 
villages, or hameletts aforesaid, and specially of the 
said town and parish of Croydon, if any be there. 
And if it be so that the said tuter and poure people be 
necligent in there election, so that the said xv daies at 
any time spevyn there election, not made of such men 
or wommen so by him chosin, be not in the said almes- 
house by such xv daies, and that every such time the 
churchwardeyns of Croydon then for the time being 



272 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

only, and noone other, chose, ordeyne, and sett in the 
same voidaunce, such as poor man or woman of the 
towns, villages, or hameletts aforesaid, and of noon 
other. Provided alwaies, that this ordinaunce be no 
manner prejudice to the foresaid tuter and poure peo- 
ple in other tymes, as oft as whenne they were dili- 
gent and spedefull in there election, within any such 
xv daies next ensuying eny such voydaunce that hap- 
pith so for to be beside the foresaid tuter and the elec- 
tion of the same poure people shall be in this manner 
of fourme, that first they shall name and condescend 
upon another persone, and which of the said two per- 
sons that hath most voyces, that persone having moste 
voyces shall be admitted and takyn into the said almes- 
hous; and if so be that the voices of the said poure 
people be eqall of every of the said three tymes, that 
partie that the voice of the tuter is uppon be take and 
hadde for the more partie ; for the voice of the said tu- 
ter in all such cases shall stand for two voices. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that if any other persone 
than only of the said towne of Croydon, or than of 
such other towne, village, or hamelett of Croydon, or 
than of such other town, village, or hamelett nygh 
abowte, not passing the space of iv myle from the said 
church of Croydon, be takyn and admitted into the 
foresaid almes-house, than all such manner of proysion 
and admission be utterly void, ofnoo strenght. But 
thenne I wool and ordeyne, that every such persone 
that happith so to be admitted into the foresaid almes- 
hous, that was of any other place then only of such 
town, village, or hammelett above specified, be expell- 
ed and put out of the said alms-house by the said 



APPENDIX. 273 

overseers, and another person of one of such towne, 
village, or hamlette aforesaid, in his place by the fore- 
said overseers be sette in and admitted ; for myne en- 
tent and wil is, that poure fette people of the said 
towns, villages, and hamlettes, and specially of the 
said towne of Croydon, that hath be housholderers or 
trewe laborers, and dwellid and contynued in some of 
the said places by seven hoole yeris togeder or more, 
next byfore such admission made into the said alms- 
house, and have not whereof to susteyne them with, 
and may no longer labour for to gett sufficiently livelode, 
be provided and admitted into the foresaid almshous. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that persone that so shall 
be provided, and ordeyned, and admitted into the fore- 
said almeshouse, be a person meek of spirite and chaste 
of body, and named of good conversacion, and also 
destitute of temporal goodes by the which he might 
competently live yf he were noon of the nombre of the 
said poure people. Wherefore, I beseech and pray, 
louly and devoutly, and also, as moche as I may with 
reverence, I charge all thoo to whom parteynith any 
provision or election of tuter or poor mann or woman 
by this ordynaunce, that, as they will answer afore the 
high Judge at the dredeful day of dome, all manner 
inordinat and singular affection, and corrupcion of fa- 
vor, praier, or receiving of gefts, be utterly excluded 
and put away from the harts and handes; and that 
they only provide and ordeygne able and devout per- 
sones of such tuters and poure people as oft as such 
voidance of theim fallith. 

Also, I woll and ordeyne, that the said tuter and 
every poure persone have a place by himsilf within the 

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274 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

said almshous, in the whiche he may ligge and reste, 
and by himsilf alone, withoute lette of any of his fe- 
lawes entende to the contemplacion of he will. But I 
forbede and charge that noo persone of them so being 
in his owen place, make any noise or disturbaunce, in 
letting or troubeling any of his felawes, or any of his 
felawes lette him or distrouble him or them so being in 
there place or places. But that every of them pesebly 
and quietly behave himsilf agenst other in such wise, 
and in all other of wise. Also, I charge theym and 
their successors, and everiche of them, peasebly and 
quietly behave himsilf agenst other in such wise, and 
in all other manner of wise as good is; and to occupy 
themsilf in praying and in beding, in hering honest 
talking, or in labours with there bodies and hands in 
some other occupations, to the laws and worship of Al- 
mighti God, and profit to theim and to there said alms- 
hous. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that the tuter of the fore- 
said almshouse that now is, and his successors, tuters 
of the same almshouse, be bounde by the tenure and 
auctorite of this ordynaunce for to admitt and receive 
all manner of poure people by the foresaid church- 
wardeyns and overseers, and every of theim, in the 
forme aforesaid to be provided and ordeyned. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that the said tuters and 
poure people, and there successors, have and take, for 
his sustenance and lyving, xvi. xii s. yerely of the sum 
of xviiii. which I will ordeyne, or to be ordeyned to 
theim yearly for their sustynaunce, and to observe and 
kepe other chargs hereafter specified ; that is to say, 
the foresaid tuter shall have and take every weke, for 



APPENDIX. 275 

his sustenaunce, xiid., and every of the rernenaunt of 
the said pour people shall have and take for his sus- 
tenaunce every weke x d. ; with the which partis, pen- 
cions, and porcions wekely, I will they hold them fully 
content; and that they beg not, on the payne that 
hereafter is written and ordeyned agenst such of them 
as be found corruptible. 

Furthermore, I establish and ordeyne, that the said 
tuter and poure people be bound by the tenure of this 
present writing, every day in the church of Croydon 
aforesaid, here all manner divine service there to be 
songe and saide, and pray specially for the estats of 
our sovrayne lord the Kinge upon his kneys, iii pa- 
ter-nosters, iii aves, and a crede, with special and har- 
tily recommendacion of me there said founder, to God 
and to our blessid lady, maydon Marye, and also 
everiche of them, tuter and poor people, other tymes 
of the day, when he may best and commodiously have 
leisure thereto, or when he or she seith most conve- 
nyent tyme, say, for the estate of all the sowlis above- 
said, iii sawters of our lady at the least; that is to say, 
thrice i ave-maries, with xv pater-nosters, and iii credis ; 
but yf he or she be letted by feblenesse, or other law- 
full reasonable cause. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that the said tuter and 
poure people and there successors, once in the day at 
the least, in case it may be in the said church of Croi- 
don, where I propose me fully, yf God will, for to be 
buried, that is to say, after the high masse and whenne 
compelyn is doon, come togedre about my buriall, and 
they that caunt shall say for my soule and the soules 
aforesaid, this psalme de profundis, &c, with the ver- 

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276 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

sides and other orisonnes that longith thereto; and 
they that cannot shall say iii pater-nosters, iii aves, and 
a crede ; and after this doon, the tuter and one of the 
eldest men of them all shall say, opinly in English, 
" God have mercy on our founder's soule and on all 
Christiensl" and they that standith abowte shall an- 
swer and say " Amen." 

Also, I stablishe and ordeyne, that the foresaid tu- 
ter and poure people that now be, and their succes- 
sors to come, be bounde by the tenure of this ordy- 
naunce to dwelle and abide contynuelly within the 
foresaid almshous and bounds thereof, as such other 
poure people in like ahnshousis and hospitales com- 
menly dwelle, and be bounde to abide and dwelle, and 
that every day, both at mete and at souper, the ete 
and be fedde within the said almshouse, onlesse than 
they be letted by a resonable cause; and whiles they 
be at mete and souper, I will that they absteyne them 
from vayne and evill woords in as moche as they may. 
And yf they will any thinge talke, that it be honest 
and profitable. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that the over clothing of 
the said tuter and poure people of the foresaid almes- 
hows be darke and browne of colour, and not staring, 
neither biasing, and of easy price cloth, according to 
ther degree. 

Also, I stablishe and ordeyne, that neither the said 
tuter that nowe is, nor any of his successors, tuters of 
the said almeshows, for to com, absent him in anywise 
from the said almeshows, by the time of vi daies in all 
the yere, continuelly and discontinuelly, withoute li- 
cence of me while I lief, or of the governers and over- 



APPENDIX. 277 

seers of the said almeshows after my decease; and 
that it be than for necessary causis in honest placis, 
that any of the other poure people of the same almes- 
hows, in every manner of kinde absent theim from the 
said almshows by on hoole day, or go withoute the 
bounds of the said almshouse, out of sight from the 
same almeshows, withowte licence of the said tuter or 
his successours, yf he be present, or, in his absence, 
withoute leve of his attorney or depute, lesse then 

the gretter need compelle and ask it, or 

that there be some other cause resonable, which is to 
be examined and approvid by the same tuter or his 
debite. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that the foresaid tuter and 
his successours, as ofte as whenne he shall goo owte 
into the towne or into any other place, that he and his 
successours ordeyne oon of his fellawes moost sadde 
and wise to occupy his occupacion for him till he come 
ageyne. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that they of the said almes- 
hous be mighte and hoole of body, specially wommen, 
yf there be any within help, and minister unto ther 
fellawes of the foresaid almeshous that be sick and 
felle in there necessaries, as ofte as they have verry 
neede of help and ber con'. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that the said tuter and 
poure people have a commyn chiste, in the which 
chiste they shall putte their commyn seale, and also 
their charteris, dedis, letters of licence, and privilegs, 
and this my ordynaunce, and other there myniments 
and escripts and tresure of there said almeshous, and 
other things, and which shuld be seem to the foresaid 



278 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

tuter and poure people expedient for the commyn pro- 
fit of the same almshous; the which chiste I will be 
putt in a secrete and a seller place within the bounds 
of the said almeshous, and that to the same chist there 
be iii divers lokks, and to every lok a key; whereof 
oon key I woll be in the kepinge of the foresaid tuter, 
and another key thereof I will be in the kepinge of the 
eldest felawe of the foresaid almshouse, and the thyrde 
key I will be in the kepinge of oone of the other fe- 
lawes of the foresaid almeshouse, every year to be cho- 
sen by me while I life, and after my decesse by the 
said tuter and poure people of the foresaid almeshous ; 
and that no man presume upon him for to hold or keep 
all the said iii keyes in his owen governaunce at ones, 
neither with the said commyn seale any thing be en- 
sealed without the licence, consent, and advice of me 
while I life, and after my deceasse of the foresaid 
gouvernours and overseers for the tyme being. 

Also, I stablish and ordeyne, that all the moneys and 
tresour of ther commyn goods and rents every yere, 
after the rekenyng by the tuter made, the which ex- 
cedith over the expence of the foresaid almeshous, and 
also the notable Jewells of the said almeshows, that be 
not behovefull every day, shall be kept in the same 
chiste. 

Also, I stablish and ordeyne, that noone of the said 
tuter and pour people that now be, and shal be in time 
commyng, presume in any manner or wyse to waste or 
consume, or give or ley to wedde inordinately, the 
goodis or any parcel of the goodes belonging to the 
said hous. But that every of them stody and labour 
to keepe forth and encrease the said goodes with all 



APPENDIX. 279 

his myght; and when any of them shall passe out of 
this world, that he give or leve all his proper goods to 
the same almeshous. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that no leper ne madman, 
nor any other person contynuelly vexed with intoler- 
able seekness, be admitted into the foresaid almshouse; 
and if it happe that any person that is, or in tyme 
comyng shall be admitted into the foresaid almshouse, 
become madd, or woode, or to be enfected with leper 
or such other intolerable seekness, then I woll and or- 
deyne that every such persone be putt oute of the said 
almeshous, leste that infect his felawes, and goo to 
som other place in the which he may be resceived, 
where I will that he have evry weke lOd. for his lyve- 
lode and other necessaries, as he shuld have in the said 
almshous, and that he be accomptid for one of the said 
almeshous and of the noumbre of the foresaid vii poure 
people during his lief. 

Also, I stablishe and ordeyne, that in case any of the 
said poure people, after they be admitted into the fore- 
said almshous, happen to be promoted or avaunced 
to any inheritaunce, or otherwise unto the summe of 
iiii marcs or above by the year, thenne he so promoted 
or avaunced be putt owte of the same almeshous, and 
of the nombre of the foresaid vii poure people, and 
another in his stead and place be resceived and ad- 
mitted; and if any of the said almeshous, after his ad- 
mission, be semblable and like inheritaunce, or other 
casuell advaunced, atteyne or come to any such yearly 
livelode, that is to say, within the said liii s. ivd. by 
yere, then I will and ordeyne, that oone halfe of the 
same somme evenly, evry yere, without fraude or mall 



"280 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

engin, be put and kepte into the foresaid chiste, to the 
commyn profitt of the same almeshous, and that other 
halfe of the same somme shall go to the foresaid per- 
sone so promoted or avaunced, with his own portion of 
the said almeshous before assigned, with the which I 
woll that he holds him content; and in case that he 
will not obeye, but contrarie this ordynaunce, than I 
will that he be put owte of the foresaid almeshouse ut- 
terly, and another person be provided and put in his 
place. 

Also, I stablish and ordeyne, that the tuter take 
hede and see that the goodes of the foresaid almes- 
house, which shall come in any wise to his hands, be 
well and trewly ministrid; and yf any of them have to 
be desceveryd, to gadre them togedre, and all suche 
goodes so by his labour gaderid togedre to kepe trew- 
ly to the awaile and use of the said almeshous, and to 
do all the husbandry of the same almshous in as moche 
as he may do goodly; and also enforce himsilf to edifie 
and norrish charite and pease amongs his felawes, and 
shewe with all his besiness, both in worde and in dede, 
ensamples of clenness and of vertue; unto which tuter 
1 charge and ordeyne, that all the remmenaunt of poure 
people of the said almeshous that now be, and their 
successours, in all things that towchith the good gou- 
vernaunce, and honeste, and profitt of the same almes- 
hous, give due obedience and attendaunce, as right 
askith. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that evry tuter of the said 
almeshous, within a month after he is admitted, take 
to him two of his felawes moost discrete by the deno- 
minacion of the foresaid governers or overseers, and 






APPENDIX. 281 

make a just inventarye of all the commyn moveable 
goodes of the said almeshouse, and the inventarye so 
made, withoute tarrying or delay, shew or putt up un- 
to the foresaid gouvernours or overseers; and in the 
ende of evry yere, or whenne any tuter cessith his of- 
fice and charge, the new tuter shall do in the same 
wyse, and byfore the said gouvernours or overseers 
yeld and make a just accompt of alle the tyme of his 
administracion, that alle men may opinly knowe in 
what a state evry tuter hath resceived, kept, and left 
the foresaid almeshouse for his tyme. 

Also, I will and ordeyne that noone of the said poure 
people which is lower in degree then the foresaid tuter, 
lye not owte of the foresaid almeshous by nyght, in the 
foresaid towne of Croydon or elsewhere, withoute a re- 
sonable cause, to be discussid and examinyd by the 
jugement of the said tuter, and also of the foresaid 
poure people, be custumably dronkley glotons or ri- 
gours amongs his felawes, or haunting taverns, or be 
unchast of his body, or walking or gazing in the opyn 
stretis of the said towne of Croydon, by day or by night, 
oute of sight from the said almshouse, but if it be only 
to the church and churchy arde of the same, with a 
reasonable cause, to be pondered and discussid by the 
discrecion and jugement of the said tuter, or of the 
foresaid gouvernours or overseers ; and what persone 
of the said poure people of any of the said defaultis, or 
of any such other defaultis, or vice like to these, be 
openly defamed and notably marked, I wool that he be 
under no and correctid by the said tu- 
ter, by twise withdrawing his portion, more or lesse, 
after the discrecion of the foresaid tuter; which portion 



282 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

so withdrawen shall been applied and put into the 
commyn chiste of the foresaide house. And if any of 
the saide poure people be warned, rebuked, and pu- 
nished, for such defaults and vices as afore is rehersid, 
or other like to them, be founde the iiid tyme defected 
thereof, after my deceasse, afore the said tuter, or afore 
the said gouvernours or overseers, thanne I woll and or- 
deyne, that eny such misgovernd persone so iii tymes 
founde defected to be held and taken for their incor- 
rectible and intolerable persone, and utterly be put 
away by the said tuters, and gouvernours and overseers, 
from the said almeshous, and from all manner of be- 
nefitte, profitt, and advantage, that he should have 
had therein yf he hadde be well governed; and that 
another convenient persone be provided and sette in 
his place, in the manner and fourme afore expressed. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that, yf any of the said 
poure people afore the saide tuter, gouvernours, or 
overseers, after my deceasse, be opinly dislaunderer 
and noisy, and after their discrecion and consideration 
be resonable convicte for a commyn distroyer or an in- 
ordinat waster of the goodes of the foresaid almeshous, 
or for an opyn lechour or avowter, or for a doer of 
more grete synnes thenne thise above expressid, thanne 
I woll and ordeyne, that eny such persone, at the first 
tyme that thus he is convicte, be utterly put away from 
the said almeshous ; and in caas that any such persone, 
so put oute after my decesse, will complayne or appele, 
that it be only to the overseers of the foresaid almes- 
hous, and to noon other. 

Also, I will and ordeyne, that the defautis and tres- 
pasis of the foresaid tuter for the tyme being, aftre my 



APPENDIX. 283 

deceasse, be refourmed, correctid, and punishid, by 
the gouvernours and overseers of the foresaid almes- 
hous, under this fourme, that is to say, as well be the 
withdrawing of his portion and part more or lesse, af- 
ter the quantite of his trespace, afore the considera- 
cion and disposicion of the gouverners and overseers 
to be mesured and taxed, as by put oute and remov- 
ing of the said tuter from his office, pencion, and place, 
which he hath in the foresaid almeshous, yf his offence 
and gilt askith it. 

Also, I wool and ordeyne, that the gouverners and 
overseers of the foresaid almeshous, and ther succes- 
sours, have poure for to make, after my deceasse, all 
manner statutes and ordinaunces y* may be seem to 
theim to the encreace of the said almeshous, and well- 
fare of the foresaid tuter and poure people, and of ther 
successours ; and that all such statutis and ordinaunces, 
so by the same gouverners or overseers or her succes- 
sours made, be observed and kept of the said tuter 
and poure people, and ther successours, and everiche 
of them, so alwaies that suche statuts and ordinaunces 
be according to resone, and not contrary to thise my 
statuts and ordinaunces, or to any other by me here- 
aftre to be made : And in caas any doubte, ambiguyte, 
or worse, befalle in mysundrestanding of thise said sta- 
tuts and ordinaunces, or of any other hereafter to be 
made by me, thenne I wool that all such statuts and 
ordinaunces so mysundrestanding be declared, cor- 
rectid, reformed, and amended, only by the foresaide 
overseers for the tyme being, or ther successours. 

Furthermore, I stablish and ordeyne, that the fore- 
said tuter and poure people, and ther successours, 



284 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

hold and make evry yere, aftre my decesse, in the 
church of Croydon aforesaid, my yeris mynde solempn- 
ly, with full service by note usid and accustumid in 
exequyes of mortuary s, begynning twelvemonth after 
the day of my deceasse, and so aftre that yerely on 
such alwaies as God wil that I deceasse, for evermore, 
yf I decesse in suche tyme of the yere that the same 
day may be kept, or els as sone aftre as hooly church 
will suffre it to be doon. Iwch yeris mynde I will that 
the foresaid tuter and poure people pay yerely of the 
foresaid xviiil. to theim by me to be ordeyned, unto the 
vicar of the church, yf he be present at the said yeris 
mynde, xxd. ; and to either of the said ii church war- 
deyns, yf they be present, xx d. ; and to every priest 
and parish-clerk of the same church, iiiid.; and that 
the said tuter offer id., and every of the said other 
people ofFre ob\ at the masse of requiem of the same 
yeris mynd. 

Also, I woll and ordeyne, that the foresaid tuter and 
poure people be bound by this present ordinaunce to 
pay evry yere unto the iiii maisters or wardeyns afore- 
said, and to her successours, overseers, and visitours 
for the same almeshous, so that ii at the least of the 
same iiii maisters or wardeins which for the time shall 
be com evry yere to the foresaid almeshous, and see 
and visite that the same house and also the tuter and 
poure people thereof be well gouvernyd, and such de- 
faults as by fore theim be founde, correcte, punissh, 
and amende, as moch as in theim is, for to doom xxvis. 
viiid., that is, for evry of them vis. viiid., and also 
xiiis. iiiid. for the costs of the same ii maisters or war- 
deyns, spended in their commyng thither aforesaid 



APPENDIX. 285 

evermore; that the said iiii wardeyns, evry such yere 
as ii at the lest of theym com not and visit the foresaid 
almeshouse and poure people, in the fourme aforesaid, 
shall no thynge have of the foresaide xxvis. viiid., nei- 
ther of the said xiii s. iiiid. for their costs: But thenne 
evry such yere the foresaid xxvis. viiid. for their la- 
bours, and the foresaid xiii s. iiiid. for their costs, re- 
mayne stille with the same tuter and poure people, and 
her successours, in there said commyn chiste, to the 
encrease and availe of the same hous, among their com- 
myn tresoure. 

Furthermore, I ordeyne and faithfully stablish, that 
if man or woman, in my foresaid Elis Davys almes- 
hous, hegge or aske any silver, or else any other good, 
within the said almeshouse, or else withoute, in any 
other place, that thenne I wool fully that all suche be 
expellid and put oute at the first warnyng, and never 
be of the fellowship, neither never more to come into 
the said almeshous. 

Also furthermore, I the said Elys have given and 
graunted unto the foresaid tuter and poure people, 
and to there successours for evermore, iii cotagis, with 
the gardines sett in Croydon aforesaid, betwene the 
said ryver on the south par tie and the king's highway 
on the east and north parties, and the gardynes sum- 
tyme blaunchards on the west partie; saving alwaies I 
woll and ordeyne that the same iii cotagis, and also 
another cotage, parcel of the said messuage above 
givin and graunted, situate by the south side of the 
mansion of the said almeshous, be sette oute yerely to 
ferme for the moost availe that may be, and that all the 



286 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

issues and profitts comyng of the ferme of the said iii 
cotages be occupied and turned to noon other use than 
only to the reparacion of the same almeshous and co- 
tagis ; and whatsoever of the same issues and profitts 
that leveth over, I will that it be put into the foresaid 
chiste, there saufly to be kept to thencrease of a com- 
myn tresour for the said tuter and poure people ; so, if 
the said almeshous and iiii cotagis, or any of them, 
shuld nede to be new bilded, therewith to bild it, or 
other comyn nedis of ther foresaid almeshous to sus- 
teyne and do. 

Moreover, I will and ordeyne, that this my present 
fundacion and ordinaunce, and all and everiche chaptre 
of the fundacion and ordinaunce, be redde opinly and 
clerely expowned evry quarter of the yere, once at the 
lest, before the said tuter and poure people, and her 
successours ; and the same tuter and poure people have 
within theimsilfe, in the said almeshous, a copy of the 
said statuts, so that whenne they wool they may rede 
the chapters of this ordinaunce, and the better have 
theim in mynde : Saving alwaies, I reserve unto my- 
silfe full poure, by thise my present letters, of alle 
manner of things that parteyneth to the said almes- 
hous, tuter, and poure people, as long as I life, to 
chaunge these foresaid ordynaunces yf nede be, or to 
correct or dispence and make new statuts, and to re- 
voke thoo that nowe be made, in case I see it expe- 
dient, this my present ordinaunce notwithstandinge. 
Nevertheless, as for nowe this tyme I pray and hertely 
beseche the said tuter and poure people that nowe be, 
and shal be in tyme comyng, that they love togedre and 



APPENDIX. 287 

kepe charite amonge theim, and serve God, and pray 
hertily for the soules beforerehersed, at this my pre- 
sent ordinaunce will, and they be conversaunt and love 
togedres, in such wise in this foresaid almshows, and 
that after thende of this life, they may comme to the 
hous of the kyngdome of hevin, the which to poure 
people is promised by the mouth of our Lord God. 
Amen. 

In witnes of all the whiche things above expressid, 
to that oon part of this present writing indented, with 
the foresaid tuter and poure people and her succes- 
sors for evermore remayning, I the said Elys have 
sette my seal, and we the foresaid tuter and poure 
people of the said almeshous, being right glad and joy- 
full of the good grace of our sovraigne lord the kyng, 
and of the foresaid reverent fader in God the arche- 
bushop of Caunterbury, and the abbot and convent of 
the monastery of Berdmonsey, and of the foresaid Ellis 
Davy our founder, and of the good, diligent, and ef- 
fectual labours of the same our founder, and yeving 
thankis and loving and praising thereof to Almyghti 
God, and to the blessid virgin Marye, his moder, Saint 
John Baptist, and to all the company of hevin; and 
taking upon us the corporacion and succession yevin 
and graunted by the foresaid letters patent of our saide 
souveraigne lord the king, and also the benefite and 
charge of this present fundacion articuled, for to ful- 
fill and do it in all and evry article in manner and 
fourme as above is declared, to that other part of this 
present writing indentid with the foresaid Elys our 
foundere while he lyvith, and after his decesse with the 
foresaid thenne our gouverners and overseers of our 



288 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

said almeshous and ther successours evermore remayn- 
yng, have sette our commyn seale. 

Yevin at Croydon aforesaid, the xxviith day of 
the moneth of Aprill, the yere of the incar- 
nacion of our Lord Jliu Christ, mccccxlvii, 
and of our sovraigne lord the kynge Henry 
the vith, after the conquest of Engeland the 
xxvth. 



No. VIII. 

Letters Patent for building the Hospital of the Holy 
Trinity at Croydon, with Licence of Mortmain and 
incorporating the same, 22nd Nov. 30 Elis. 

Elizabeth, Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, et Hi- 
berniae Regina, Fidei Defensor, &c. Omnibus ad 
quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem. Cum re- 
verendissimus in Christo Pater praedilectus consiliarius 
noster Johannes Whitegifte Cantuar' Archiepiscopus, 
totius Angliae primas et metropolitanus, perpendens 
mortales omnes in hoc mundo positos ut Dei omnipo- 
tentis gloriam illustrent, ac humano generi quam max- 
ime prosint, illamque maximam beneficentiam merito 
censendam esse, non quae fluxae istius ac labilis huma- 
nae vitas angustis terminis continetur, sed quae in mi- 
seros et egenos Christianos, ipsius Jesu Christi Salva- 
toris nostri mystica membra, ad diuturnitatem per om- 
nes succedentium saeculorum aetates (modo Deo ita 



APPENDIX. 289 

videatur) propagari utiliter poterit; Ptochodochium 
quoddam sive Hospitale pauperum intra villain de 
Croydon in comitatu nostro Surr', de mundanis suis fa- 
cultatibus quas Deus ei tanquam dispensatori concedi- 
dit, fundare, exigere, dotare, et in perpetuum stabilire 
statuerit, nostro prius regio assensu ad id exhibito, 
quern humiliter ac dimisse a nobis petierit: Sciatis 
igitur quod nos, tarn laudabili pioque ipsius instituto 
faventes, idemque summopere promovere cupientes, de 
gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia et mero mo- 
tu nostris, volumus, concedimus, et ordinamus, pro no- 
bis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, quod de caetero 
in perpetuum sit et erit unum Ptochodochium sive 
hospitale pauperum in Croydon praedicto, pro susten- 
tatione sive relevamine pauperum et indigentium quo- 
rundam Christianorum, perpetuis temporibus duratur'; 
quod quidem hospitale vocabitur Hospitale Sanctae 
Trinitatis in Croydon ex fundatione Joharmis White- 
gifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi ; et hospitale illud, 
per nomen Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon ex 
fundatione Johannis Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archie- 
piscopi, erigimus, cedamus, fundamus, et stabilimus 
firmiter per praesentes; et quod hospitale illud de cae- 
tero sit et erit aut possit esse de uno custode et pau- 
peribus per eundem Johannem Whitegifte Archiepis- 
copum et successores suos secundum ordinationem in 
his literis nostris patentibus speciflcat' eligend'. Et 
ut intentio ac propositum hoc pium meliorem flrmior- 
emque sortiatur efFectum; atque ut bona, terrae, tene- 
menta, redditus, reventiones, et alia haereditamenta, ad 
sustentationem hospitalis praedicti ac custodis pauper- 
umque et aliorum in eodem degentium, posthac conce- 

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290 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

dend', assignand', et destinand', melius gubernentur, 
tractentur, regantur, et insumantur, pro perpetua con- 
tinuatione ejusdem; Volumus, concedimus, et ordina- 
mus, pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, per 
praesentes, quod de caetero sit et erit in perpetuum 
unus custos dicti hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croy- 
don praedicto, ac terrarum, tenementorum, reddituum, 
reventionum, possessionum, aliorumque haereditamen- 
torum ejusdem hospitalis, necnon bonorum et catallo- 
rum ejusdem; qui erit et vocabitur Custos Hospitalis 
Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon ex fundatione Johannis 
Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi ; quodque de 
caetero perpetuis futuris temporibus sint et erunt sex, 
septem, octo, novem, decern, aut aliquis alius numerus 
sub numero quadraginta pauperum in eodem hospitali 
sustentand', manutenend 5 , et relevand', ac per praedic- 
tum Johannem Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepisco- 
cum et successores suos, secundum intentionem harum 
literarum nostrarum patentium, de tempore in tempus 
eligend', nominand', et assignand', qui similiter erunt 
et vocabuntur Pauperes Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis 
in Croydon ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte Cantu- 
ariensis Archiepiscopi. Et ad munus et officium cus- 
todis hospitalis praedicti bene et fideliter exequend' et 
exercend', nos, ad humilem petitionem dicti Johannis 
Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, pro prima vice 
elegimus, nominavimus, assignavimus, et constituimus, 
ac per praesentes eligimus, nominamus, assignamus, et 
constituimus dilectum nobis Philippum Jenkins fore et 
esse primum et modernum custodem dicti hospitalis, ac 
terrarum, tenementorum, reddit', reventionum, posses- 
sionum, aliorumque haereditamentorum ejusdem hospi- 



APPENDIX. 291 

talis, necnon bonorum et catallorum ejusdem; ac, 
ad consimilem petitionem dicti Johannis Whitegifte 
Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi elegimus, nominavimus, 
assignavimus, et constituimus, ac per praesentes eli- 
gimus, nominamus, assignamus, et constituimus, Jo- 
hannem Holland, Christoferum Fenner, Reginald um 
Scroobie, Thomam Whitehead, Richardum Dibble, 
et Robertum Curtis, fore et esse primos et moder- 
nos pauperes hospitalis praedicti, continuandos in eo- 
dem hospitali durant' vitis suis naturalibus, nisi pro 
aliqua causa rationabili per Archiepiscopum Cantu- 
ariensem pro tempore existent' aut successores suos 
amovebuntur, aut eorum aliquis amovebitur. Et ulte- 
rius, de ampliori gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa sci- 
entia et mero motu nostris, volumus, ac per praesentes 
pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, concedi- 
mus et ordinamus, quod iidem custos et pauperes hos- 
pitalis praedicti et successores ipsorum de caetero in 
perpetuum sint et erunt unus corpus corporatum et 
politicum de se, in re, facto, et nomine, per nomen 
Custodis et Pauperum Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in 
Croydon ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte Cantua- 
riensis Archiepiscopi; ac ipsos custodem et pauperes 
et successores suos per nomen Custodis et Pauperum 
Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon ex fundatione 
Johannis Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi in- 
corporamus, ac unum corpus corporatum et politicum 
per idem nomen in perpetuum duratur' realiter et ad 
plenum, pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, 
erigimus, creamus, ordinamus, facimus, constituimus, 
et stabilimus firmiter per praesentes; quodque per 
idem nomen Custodis et Pauperum Hospitalis Sanctae 

V2 



292 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Trinitatis in Croydon ex fundatione Johannis White- 
gifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, perpetuis futuris 
temporibus, vocabuntur, appellabuntur, et nominabun- 
tur, habeantque successionem perpetuam; et quod per 
idem nomen sint et erunt personam habiles, aptae, et in 
lege capaces, ad perquirendum, recipiendum, haben- 
dum, et possidendum tarn bona et catalla, quam mane- 
ria, terras, tenementa, prata, pascua, pastur', redditus, 
reventiones, et alia haereditamenta quaecunque, sibi et 
successoribus suis, in perpetuum seu aliter, tarn de no- 
bis, haeredibus vel successoribus nostris, quam de prae- 
fato Johanne Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopo, 
haeredibus vel assignatis suis, vel ab aliqua alia perso- 
na, seu de aliquibus aliis personis, ad sustentationem, 
manutentionem, et relevamen hospitalis prasdicti, ac 
custodis atque pauperum ibidem de tempore in tem- 
pus degentium et sustentand'. Volumus etiam, et pro 
nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, per praesen- 
tes concedimus, praefato custodi et pauperibus dicti 
hospitalis et successoribus suis, quod ipsi de caetero in 
perpetuum habeant commune sigillum ad negotia sua 
et quamlibet seu aliquam inde parcellam tangent' seu 
concernent' deservitur'; et quod praedictus custos et 
pauperes hospitalis praedicti et successores sui, per no- 
men Custodis et Pauperum Hospitalis Sanctae Trinita- 
tis in Croydon ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte 
Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, placitare et implacitari, 
prosequi, defendere et defendi, respondere et respon- 
ded possint et valeant, in omnibus et singulis causis, 
querelis, sectis, et actionibus quibuscunque, cujus- 
cunque generis sive naturae fuerint, in quibuscunque 
locis et curiis nostris, haeredum vel successorum nos- 



APPENDIX. 293 

trorum, ac in placeis, locis, et curiis aliorum quorum- 
cunque, ac coram quibuscunque judicibus autjustici- 
ariis intra hoc regnum Angliae aut, alibi ; et ad ea, ac ad 
omnia et singula alia faciend', agend', et exigend 5 , eo- 
dem modo prout caeteri ligei nostri personae habiles et 
in lege capaces intra idem regnum nostrum Angliae fa- 
ciunt, aut facere valeant seu posse, in curiis, locis, et 
placeis praedictis, et coram justiciariis et judicibus su- 
pradictis. Volumus etiam, ac ex uberiori gratia nos- 
tra speciali ac ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris, 
pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, conce- 
dimus, quod quandocunque contigerit praedictum cus- 
todem hospitalis praedicti ab hac vita discedere, vel a 
loco et officio suo custodis hospitalis praedicti amoveri, 
quod tunc et totiens bene liceat et licebit Archiepisco- 
po Cantuariensi pro tempore existent', et successoribus 
suis, unam sufficientem et idoneam personam in locum 
sive officium hujusmodi custodis sic morientis vel amoti 
eligere et praeficere ; quae quidem persona, sic ut prae- 
fertur ad officium et locum custodis hospitalis praedicti 
electa et praefecta, erit ct continnabit custos hospitalis 
praedicti durante vita sua naturali, nisi interim pro ali- 
qua causa rationabili ab officio et loco praedictis amo- 
vebitur. Volumus etiam, et per praesentes pro nobis, 
haeredibus et successoribus nostris, concedimus, quod 
quandocunque contigerit aliquem vel aliquos praedic- 
torum modernorum pauperum hospitalis praedicti qui 
nunc sunt, aut qui in posterum juxta formam et effec- 
tum praesentium per praedictum Johannem Whitegifte 
Cantuariensis Archiepiscopum aut successores suos 
electi, nominati seu assignati erunt, ab hac vita disce- 
dere, vel ab hospitali praedicto pro aliqua causa ration 



294 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

nabili amoveri, quod tunc et totiens bene liceat et li- 
cebit Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi pro tempore existent' 
et successoribus suis, aliquam personam vel alias per- 
sonas pauperes et indigentes in hospitali praedicto 
manutenend' et sustinand' eligere et praeficere, et sic 
totiens quotiens casus sic accident. Volumus etiam, ac 
per praesentes pro nobis, ha^redibus et successoribus 
nostris, concedimus, quod tarn idem Johannes White- 
gifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus de tempore in tern- 
pus durante vita sua naturali, quam etiam alius vel alii 
per istum in ultima sua voluntate in scripto, aut per 
factum suum manu sua subscripta et sigillo suo signa- 
tum, nominandum atque assignandum, faciat et faciant, 
et facere valeat et valeant et possint, idonea et salubria 
statuta et ordinationes in scripto concernen' tarn veram 
religionem ac divina servitia infra hospitale predict' de 
tempore in tempus in honorem Omnipotentis Dei cele- 
branda, quam gubernationem, electionem, expulsionem, 
punitionem, et directionem custodis et pauperum hos- 
pitalis praedicti pro tempore existent', necnon stipendia 
et salaria eorundem custodis et pauperum, et alia quae- 
cunque idem hospitale seu custodem et pauperes pre- 
dictos, ac ordinationes, preservations, et dispositiones 
possessionum, reddituum, reversionum, aliorumque has- 
reditamentorum, necnon bonorum et catallorum ejus- 
dem hospitalis, ad sustentationem ejusdem hospitalis 
concedend', assignand', vel destinand', quovismodo tan- 
gent' et concernend': Quae quidem statuta et ordina- 
tiones sic, ut praefertur, faciend', volumus et concedi- 
mus, ac per praesentes, pro nobis, haeredibus et suc- 
cessoribus nostris, praecipimus inviolabiliter observari 
de tempore in tempus in perpetuum : Ita tamen quod 



APPENDIX. 295 

statuta et ordinationes praedict', sic ut praefertur fiend', 
nee eorum aliqua, non sint contraria nee repugnand' 
legibus et statutis regni nostri Angliae. Et ulterius, de 
uberiori gratia nostra, ac ex certa scientia et mere- mo- 
tu nostris, per praesentes damus et concedimus praefato 
custodi et pauperibus Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in 
Croydon ex fundatione praedicti Johannis Whitegifte 
Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, et successoribus eorum, 
licentiam specialem, liberamque et licitam facultatem, 
potestatem, et autoritatem, perquirendi, recipiendi, ob- 
tinendi, gaudiendi, possidendi, et habendi, eis et eorum 
successoribus in perpetuum, ad perpetuam sustenta- 
tionem et manutentionem hospitalis praedicti, tarn de 
nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, quam de 
praefato Johanne Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepis- 
copo, haeredibus, executoribus, vel assignatis suis, vel 
de aliis quibuscunque personis, maneria, messuagia, 
terras, tenementa, rectorias, decimas, et alia haeredita- 
menta quaecumque intra regnum nostrum Angliae, quae 
in toto non excedunt clarum annuum valorem ducenta- 
rum librarum, et quae non tenementa de nobis, haere- 
dibus vel successoribus nostris immediate in capite,nec 
aliter de nobis, haeredibus vel successoribus nostris, 
seu de aliquo alio, per servitium militare. Damus 
etiam, et pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, 
per praesentes concedimus, omnibus et singulis perso- 
nis quibuscunque, et eorum cuilibet, licentiam specia- 
lem, et plenam, liberam et licitam facultatem et autho- 
ritatem, quod ipsi et eorum quilibet maneria, messua- 
gia, terras, tenementa, rectorias, decimas, et alia haerew 
ditamenta quaecumque intra regnum Angliae, non ex- 
cedend' in toto clarum annuum valorem ducentarum 



296 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

librarum, et quae non teneantur de nobis, haeredibus 
vel successoribus nostris immediate in capite, nee aliter 
de nobis, haeredibus vel successoribus nostris, seu de 
aliquo alio, per servitium militare, praefatis custodi et 
pauperibus hospitalis praedicti et successoribus suis in 
perpetuum dare, legare, concedere, vendere, et aliena- 
re possit vel pos int, sine aliquo brevi de Ad quod 
damnum, aut aliqua inquisitione in hac parte habenda 
seu facienda, statuto de terris et tenementis ad manum 
mortuam non ponendis, aut aliquo alio statuto, actu, 
ordinatione, sive provisione, aut aliqua alia re, causa, 
vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstante. Ac 
ulterius volumus, ac per praesentes praecipimus et or- 
dinamus, quod omnia proficua, exitus, et reventiones 
omnium hujusmodi terrarum, tenementorum, haeredita- 
mentorum, et possessionum, in posterum ad perpetuam 
sustentationem et manutentionem praedicti hospitalis 
dandorum et assignandorum, convertantur, disponan- 
tur, et expendantur ad sustentationem custodis et pau- 
perum hospitalis praedicti pro tempore existen', ac ali- 
orum officiariorum et ministrorum ejusdem pro tempore 
existent*, juxta ordinationes et statuta per praedictum 
Johannem Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopum, 
seu per aliquem alium aut aliquos alios per ipsum no- 
minand' aut assignand', prout praefertur, faciend'; nec- 
non ad sustentationes, manutentiones, et reparationes 
domorum, terrarum, et possessionum hujusmodi, se- 
cundum eadem statuta et ordinationes sic ut praefer- 
tur faciend 5 , et non aliter, nee ad aliquos alios usus 
aut intentiones. Volumus etiam, ac per praesentes, 
pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, conce- 
dimus praefato Johanni Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archi- 



APPENDIX. 297 

episcopo, quod habeat et habebifc has literas nostras 
patentes sub nostro sigillo nostro Angliae debito modo 
factas et sigillatas absque fine, seu feodo magno vel 
parvo, nobis hanapeiio nostro seu alibi ad usum nos- 
trum proinde quoquo modo reddendo, solvendo, vel fa- 
ciendo; eo quod expressa mentio de vero valore an- 
nuo vel de rectitudine praemissorum, sive eorum alicu- 
jus, aut de aliis donis .-ive concessionibus per nos seu 
per aliquem progenitorum nostrorum praefato Johanni 
Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopo ante heec tera- 
pora factis in prassentibus minime factis existit; aut 
aliquo statuto, actu, ordinatione, provisione, sive re- 
strictione in contrarium inde antehac habit', fact', edit', 
ordinat', sive provis', aut aliqua alia re, causa, vel ma- 
teria quacunque in aliquo non obstante. In cujus rei 
testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. 
Teste meipsa, apud "Westmonasterium, vicesimo se- 
cundo die Xovembris, anno regni nostri tricesimo oc- 
tavo. 

Per Breve de Privato Sigillo. 

Kempe. 
Indorsed — 

A Graunte to the Archbishop of Canterbury, for 
erecting of an Almeshouse, at Croydon in the 
Countie of Surr'. Kempe. 

Character' per Will'um Brent. 



298 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



No. IX. 

Archbishop Whitgifi*s Deed of Foundation. 

To all true Christian people to whome theis presents 
shall come, John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, send- 
eth greeting in our Lord God everlasting. Whereas, 
in the session of Parliament houlden at Westminster 
in the nyne and thirtith yeare of the reigne of our So- 
vereigne Ladie Elizabeth the Queenes Majesty that 
nowe is, one acte was made, entituled " An acte for 
erecting of hospitalls or abidinge and working houses 
for the poorer" Now this present deede witnesseth, 
that the said John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canter- 
burie, now being seised of an estate in fee simple in 
his owne right, and to his owne use, of and in one 
building of brick, or brickhouse, newly and lately by 
him built and erected in Croydon, in the countie of 
Surrey, and of and in certen other houses, gardyns, 
orchardes, courtes, yerds, and grounds thereunto ad- 
joyning, scituat and being in Croydon aforesaide, doth 
by the power, vertue, strength, licence, and authoritie 
of the said acte, by this his present deede to be en- 
rolled in the high courte of Chauncerie, erect, founde, 
and establish the saide building of brick, or brick- 
house, and the saide houses, gardens, orchardes, 
courtes, yerdes, and groundes thereunto adjoyning, to 
be an hospitall and abiding-place for the finding, sus- 
tentation, and relief of certen maymed, poore, needie, 



APPENDIX. 299 

or impotent people, to have continuance for ever; 
which hospitall, and the persons therein to be placed, 
the said John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterburie, 
hath assigned, limited, and appoynted, and hereby 
doth assigne, limit, and appointe, to be incorporated, 
named, and called, by the name of The Hospitall of 
the Holye Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of 
John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury; and the 
same Hospitall, by the name of The Hospitall of the 
Holye Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John 
Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury, doth, by force 
and vertue of the said acte of Parliament, and by this 
his deede, erect, founde, and establish firmely to have 
contynuance for ever; and doth also ordeyne, limite, 
and appointe, that the same hospitall shall consist of 
one wardeine, which shalbe the headd of the said hos- 
pitall; and of maymed, poore, or impotent persons, 
not exceeding in all the nomber of forty, which shalbe 
the bodye and members of the said hospitall, and they 
from tyme to tyme to be chosen, nominated, placed, 
appoynted, and assigned, according to the true intent 
and meaning hereafter in theis presents expressed or 
mentioned. And to the end that the said intent and 
purpose of the said Archbishop of Canterbury may 
take the better and more sure effect, and that the 
landes, tenements, rents, revenewes, and other heredi- 
taments, and also all and singuler goodes and chattells, 
now or hereafter to be geven, graunted, assigned, or 
appoynted, to or for the sustenaunce or mayntenaunce 
of the said hospitall, and of the wardeyne and maymed 
poore or impotent persons therein for the tyme being 
abiding, may the better be mayntened, governed, dis- 



300 HISTORY OF CKOYDON. 

posed, ruled, and bestowed for ever hereafter; the said 
Archbishop of Canterbury appoynteth, assigneth, ly- 
miteth, and ordeyneth, by theis presents, that from 
henceforth for ever there be and shalbe one wardeine 
of the said hospitall of the Holie Trinitie, in Croydon, 
of the foundation of John Whitegift, Archbishop of 
Canterbury, and of the landes, tenements, rents, reve- 
newes, possessions, and other hereditaments of the 
same hospitall, and also of the goodes and chattels of 
the same, which shalbe called the Wardeine of the 
hospitall of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foun- 
dation of John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury, 
and that for ever there bee and shalbe maymed, poore, 
or impotent persons, not exceeding the number of for- 
tie, which shalbe susteyned, maynteyned, and relieved 
in the same hospitall, and from tyme to tyme be cho- 
sen, nominated, placed, appoynted, and assigned, ac- 
cording to the true intent and meaning hereafter in 
theis presents expressed or mentioned, which likewise 
shalbe called The Poore of the Hospitall of the Holie 
Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John White- 
gift, Archbishop of Canterbury: And for the office 
and function of the wardeine of the same hospitall well 
and truely to be executed and exercised, the said 
Archbishop of Canterbury, for the first tyme, hath 
chosen, assigned, and appointed, and by theis presents 
doth choose, assigne, and appoint Philip Jenkins to 
be the first and present wardeine of the same hospi- 
tall, and of the landes, tenements, rents, revenewes, 
possessions, and other hereditaments of the same hos- 
pitall, and also of the goodes and chattells of the 
same: And allso the said Archbishop of Canterbury 



APPENDIX. 301 

hathe chosen, assigned, and appointed, and by theis 
presents doth choose, assigne, and appoint John Hol- 
land, Christopher Fenner, Reynold Scroobie, Richard 
Deeble, Robert Curtis, Edward Holloway, Edward 
Pringle, Augustine Willis, Robert King, Henry Jef- 
ferey, Henry Leaver, and Thomas Elton, to be twelve 
of the first of the saide maymed poore or impotent 
persons, not exceeding the number of fortie, of the 
same hospitall, to contynue in the same hospitall, with 
the residue of the said maymed poore or impotent 
persons, not exceeding the number of fortie, hereafter 
frome tyme to tyme to be chosen, nominated, placed, 
appointed, and assigned, by the said archbishop, his 
heires, executors, or assignes, according to the true 
intent and meaning hereafter in theis presents express- 
ed or mentioned. And further, the said Archbishop 
of Canterbury doth by theis presents (by force and 
vertue of the said acte) graunt, ordeyne, lymitt, assigne, 
and appointe, that the warden and maymed poore or 
impotent of the same hospitall as is aforesaid, and 
their successors for ever, be and shalbe one bodie cor- 
porate and politique of it selfe in deed and name, by 
the name of The Wardein and Poore of the Hospitall 
of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of 
John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury; and the 
same wardein and poore, and their successors, by the 
said name of The Wardein and Poore of the Hospitall 
of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of 
John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury, doth by 
theis presents, according to the said power and autho- 
rity before mentioned, incorporate, creat, and make 
one bodie corporate and politique, by the same name 



302 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

for ever, to the pleasure of Almightie God to endure; 
and also really and fully, for him and his heires, doth 
erect, creat, ordeyne, make, constitute, and establish 
firmely by theis presents; and that by the same name 
of The Wardeyn and Poore of the Hospitall of the 
Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John 
Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury, at all tymes 
hereafter, they shalbe called and nominated, and by 
that name have a perpetuall contynuaunce and succes- 
sion for ever; and that by the same name they be and 
shalbe persons hable, apt, and capable in the lawe, to 
purchase, receave, have, and possesse, aswell goodes 
and chattells, as mannors, landes, tenements, rents, 
and hereditaments whatsoever (not exceeding the va- 
lue of two hundreth pounds by the yeare) to them and 
their successors for ever, aswell of our Soveraigne 
Ladie the Queenes Majestie, her heires and succes- 
sors, as of the said Archbishop of Canterbury, his 
heires and assignes, or of any other person or persons, 
for the sustentation, mayntenaunce, and relief of the 
said hospitall, and of the said wardein and poore ther- 
in from tyme to tyme abiding, and to be relieved, ac- 
cording to the forme, effect, and true meaning of the 
said acte of Parliament, to all intents and purposes: 
And also, the said Archbishop graunteth, assigneth, 
and appointeth, by theis presents, to the said wardein 
and poore of the hospitall of the Holy Trinitie, in 
Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Arch- 
bishop of Canterbury, and to their successors, that 
they for ever hereafter shall and maye have and en- 
joy e a common-seale, to serve for their affayres con- 
cerning the said hospitall, and everie of them, en- 



APPENDIX. 303 

graved with the historie of Dives and Lazarus, and a 
scutcheon of the armes of the said John Whitegift, 
and circumscribed with theis wordes, " Sigillum Hos- 
pitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Villa de Croydon;" and 
that the said wardein and poore of the said hospitall, 
and their successors, by the name of The Wardein 
and Poore of the Hospitall of the Holy Trinitie, in 
Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Arch- 
bishop of Canterbury, may and shalbe able to plead 
and be impleaded, sue and to be sued, defend and to 
be defended, aunswer and to be aunswered unto, in all 
and singuler causes, quarrells, suites, and actions 
whatsoever, of whatsoever kinde or nature they be, in 
whatsoever places or courts of our said Soveraigne 
Lady the Queene, her heires or successors, or in the 
courtes and places of any other person or persons 
whatsoever, and before any judges or justices whatso- 
ever, within this realme of England, or elsewhere ; and 
to doe and execute, performe and accomplish, all and 
singuler other things whatsoever, and that as fully and 
freely, and in as large and ample manner and forme, 
as persons incorporate, or any other the liege people 
of our said Soveraigne Lady the Queene, being per- 
sons able and capable in the lawe, may lawfully doe 
and execute in any parte or place within the realme of 
England ; and that the same hospitall, and the warden 
and maymed poore or impotent persons of the same 
for the tyme being, and everie of them, shalbe from 
tyme to tyme ordered, directed, and visited, placed, or 
upon just cause displaced and amoved, by suche per- 
son or persons, bodies politique or corporate, their 
heires, successors, or assignes, as shalbe nominated or 



304 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

assigned by the said John Whitegift, his heires or as- 
signes, according to such rules, statutes, and ordi- 
naunces, as shalbe set forth, made, devised, or esta- 
blished, by the said John Whitegift, Archbishop of 
Canterburie, or his heires or assignes, in writinge un- 
der his or their or some of their hands and seales, not 
being repugnant or contrarie to the lawes and statutes 
of this realme: And furthermore, the said John White- 
gift, Archbishop of Canterburie, doth, by theis pre- 
sents, appoint, assigne, and lymitt, that all the profitts, 
commodities, and revenewes of all the landes, tene- 
ments, rents, hereditaments, and possessions, by theis 
presents mentioned to be geven, or hereafter to be 
geven, and likewise all the goodes and chattells here- 
after to be geven to the relief of the same hospitall, 
shalbe converted, disposed, and employed, to and for 
the mayntenaunce and sustentation of the said hos- 
pitall, and of the said bodie and members thereof, ac- 
cording to the rules, statutes, and ordinaunces, hereaf- 
ter to be lymited, assigned, or appointed, as is afore- 
said: And further, the said John Whitegift, Arch- 
bishop of Canterburie, to and for the present endow- 
ment of the said hospitall, doth by theis presents (ac- 
cording to the purport and true meaning of the said 
acte of parliament) give, graunte, appoint, and con- 
firme unto the said wardein and poore of the said hos- 
pitall of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the founda- 
tion of John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterburie, 
and to their successors for ever, one annuetie, or year- 
ly rent of tenne pounds by the yeare, of lawfull money 
of England, to be had and taken oute of all those 
landes and tenements of the said John Whitegift, 



APPENDIX. 305 

Archbishop of Canterburie, called or knowen by the 
severall names of Christian-field and Rye-crofte, con- 
teyninge, by estimation, threescore and seventeen acres, 
scituate, lying, and being in the parish of Croydon, in 
the said countie of Surrey, to have and to receave the 
said annuetye or yearlie rent of tenne pounds, unto the 
said wardein and poore of the said hospitall of the 
Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John 
Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterburie, and to their 
successors for ever, at the feast of St. Michael the 
Archangell and the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, 
by even portions, yearlie to be paid : And if it happen 
the said yearlie rent of tenne poundes, or any parte 
therof, to be behind unpaid, in parte or in all, by the 
space of tenne dayes after any of the said feasts in 
which (as aforesaid) it ought to be paid; that then, and 
so often, it shalbe lawfull for the said wardein and 
poore of the said hospitall of the Holy Trinitie, in 
Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Arch- 
bishop of Canterburie, to their successors and assignes, 
to enter into the premisses, or any parte thereof, there 
to distrayne, and the distresse so taken to withhold, un- 
till they be of the said rent and of the arrearages (if 
any be) fully satisfied, contented, and paid; which 
said landes and tenementes, called or knowen by the 
several names of Christian-field and Rye-crofte, are 
holden in soccage, and the said John Whitegift, Arch- 
bishop of Canterburie, is and standeth thereof seized 
of a good, sure, and lawfull estate in fee simple, abso- 
lutelie, to hym and his heires. In witnes wherof, the 
said John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterburie, to 
this present deede hath putto his hand and seale. 

X 



306 HISTORY OF CROYDON, 

Dated the five and twentith day of June, in the yeare 
of the reigne of our Soveraigne Ladie Elizabeth, by 
the grace of God, Queene of England, France, and 
Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c, the one and for- 
tithe. 

Jo. Cantuar. 

Sealed and delivered in presence of us, 

Ric. London. John Parker. 

Jo. Bath. &Wellen. Ed. Barker. 

J. W. Fawkes. George Paule. 

Jon. Boys. Abraham Hartwell. 

E. Aylworth. Richard Massinger. 

W. Barlow. Ffowlke Bowghton. 

Ffrancisco Butler. Willm. Beeston. 

Chr.Wormeall. Willm. Segar, Norroy 

John Gilpin. King of Armes, 
Aymas Nevile. 

Irr. in dors, claus. cancellar. infrascr. dne regine 
vicesimo sexto die Junii anno infrascript. 

Per Johem Snelling. 



APPENDIX. 307 



No.X. 



Statutes K Constitutions, and Ordinaunces, devised by 
me, John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury, 
Founder of the Hospytall of the Holye Trinity, in 
Croydon, in the County of Surrye, and given unto 
them of the sayde Hospytall, for the Order, Go- 
vernemente, and Direction, touchinge the Lands and 
Tenements of the said Hospitall and all the Mem- 
bers thereof {From a MS. in the Library at Lam- 
beth, No. 275). 



Cap. I. — Of the Number of those that are to be mayn- 
teyned in or by the Hospitall. 

First, I do ordeyne, that the number of the bre- 
theren and sisteres of the sayde Hospitall shalbe ever 
thirtie at the least, and so many more, under xl in all, 
as the revenues of the sayde Hospitall, accordinge to 
the proportion in theis ordinaunces lymitted, may 
beare, untill all the severall roomes therein appointed 
for lodginge be replenished; of the which number of 
bretheren, one shall teache a common schoole in Croy- 
don, in the schoole-house there by me buylded, and 
performe suche other duties as is appointed unto him 
in these ordinaunces and statuts: Provided always, 
that the yerely sume of tenn pounds owte of the reve- 
newes be yerely reservid for reparations, sutes in lawe, 
and other necessary charges, &c, over and above the 

proportions hereafter lymmited. Item, yf any of the 

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308 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

places of the poore brethren or sisters aforesayde, up- 
on any occasion, shall happen to be voyde by the space 
of one hale monethe or more, or the place of the 
schoole-master by the space of three moneths or 
more, or yf y t shall please God so to blesse the hos- 
pitall, as that any other overpluss of revenewe shall re- 
mayne, when all the roomes as aforesayde shalbe re- 
plenished ; the allowance that shalbe due unto suche 
voyde places, and suche overpluss, shalbe layde up 
and reserved safe in the common chest of the sayde 
hospitall, as a stocke to be imployed for repayringe, 
reedyfyinge, defence in lawe, or for other common 
charges. 

Cap. II. — That Women may be placed in the Hospitall. 

I ordeine, that the sayde hospitall may have women 
placed in yt, aswell as men ; they the sayde women be- 
ing poore, and qualifiede in lyke manner, forme, and 
degree, as is hereafter expressed in the statutes touch- 
inge the seconde and third degree of those who are to 
be placed: Provided nevertheless, that at no tyme 
above one half parte of the whole number (not account- 
inge in this behalf the wardein nor the schoolemaister) 
shall consiste of women only: Provided also, that the 
poore wydowes of longeste contynewance in Croydon 
and Lambethe, beinge quallyfiede accordinge to the 
ordinaunce, shalbe prefFerred before all others. 

Cap. III. — Who shall not be lodged or enterteyned in 
the Hospitall. 
No man nor woman shall lodge in the sayde hospi- 
tall, eyther wyfe, children, or others, not beinge mem- 



APPENDIX. 309 

bers of the sayde hospitall; neither shall enterteyne 
any manner of person in the towne of Croydon, not 
being borne in the sayde towne, or there remayninge 
three yeres next before, whereby the towne may pre- 
sently or afterwards be burdened, uppon payne of loss 
of their place in the sayde hospitall forever ipso facto. 

Cap. IV. — Of the Ellection and Placing e of the Mem- 
bers of the Hospitall. 

I doe ordeine, that, within one monethe (yf conve- 
niently yt may bee) after yt shalbe notifiede by the 
warden, or otherwyse, that the place of the schoole- 
master, or of any other of the poore brethren or sys- 
ters of the sayde hospitall, is any waye become voyde, 
the Archbishop of Canterbury (for the tyme beinge) 
or, the see beinge voyde, the parson of Lambethe, and 
vicar or curate of Croydon, shall nomynate and place 
some one qualified accordinge to these ordinaunces, 
under his or theyr hande and seale ; who, uppon suche 
nomination or placinge, shall wythoute delaye be 
sworne and admitted as is hereafter expressed: But if 
the parson of Lambethe and the vicar or curate of 
Croydon for the tyme beinge, when the see of Canter- 
burye is voyde, shall not agree of some one quallyfyed 
accordinge to these ordinaunces, within one monethe 
after yt come to theyr knowledge that a place is voyde, 
then I will that the archdecon of Canterbury e for the 
tyme beinge shall supplye theyr defecte therin, so that 
he name suche an one as is quallifiede accordinge to 
theis statutes. 

Item, I ordeine and appointe, that the poore bro- 
ther appointed to be the schoolmaster shall be a par- 



310 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

son well qualyfyede for that function, that is to saye, 
an honest man, learnede in the Greeke and Lattin 
tongues, a good versifiere in bothe the foresayde lan- 
guages, and able to wryte well (yf possible yt may bee); 
which poore brother appointed to that offyce, and 
quallified and placed as afore, shall have for his lodg- 
inge and dwellinge place, during the tyme that he con- 
tineweth schoolmaster, that howse which I have buyld- 
ed for that purpose, adioyninge to the sayde hospitall, 
and nere unto the sayde schoolehouse, together with 
suche backsides and grounds as I have appointed to 
be annexed to the sayd howse, and which the present 
schoolemaster nowe enioyethe, and shall also have the 
some of twentye pounds yearely for his stipande, to 
bee payde quarterlye, together with other further co- 
modyties of corne or wood, as hereafter shal happen 
to be allotted to other of the poore brethren of the 
sayde hospitall: I doe lykewyse ordeyne and appointe, 
that the howse which I have builded for the sayde 
schoolehowse, and also the howse which I have buyld- 
ed for the schoolemaster, shalbe for ever imployede to 
that use onlye, and to no other. 

The wardein frome tyme to tyme, so often as the 
place shalbe voyde, shalbe one of the poore brethren 
of the sayde hospitall, and shalbe appointed by me the 
founder, during my lyfe ; and after my deathe, and the 
deathe of suche wardeine as is allreadye appointed by 
myself, suche one of the poore brethrene shalbe cho- 
sen after moreninge prayere, in the chappell of the 
sayde hospitall, within seaven days after every suche 
vacation, as the greater parte of all, that is to saye, of 
the schoolemaster (yf that place be then full) and of 



APPENDIX. 311 

the other poore brethrene recconed together, and then 
present, shall chose to be wardein: But yf the voyces 
happen to be even, then suche poore brother shalbe 
wardein, with whome the schoolemaster, as is afore- 
sayde, did give his voyce : But yff the greater parte of 
the hole companye cannot, within the tyme aforesayde, 
agree upone one, then suche brother shalbe wardeine 
as yt shall please the Archbyshopp of Canterburye, or 
(the see beinge voyde) the vycar or curate of Croydon, 
to nominate, uppon advertysemente by lettres thereof, 
to be gyven by the senior poore brother, or schoole- 
master, yf any suche bee. 

The office of the wardeine shalbe, to keepe one of 
the keyes of the comon chests and dore of the evi- 
dence-howse ; to procure that the gates be locked and 
opened at due tymes apointed ; and that the keyes, on 
nyghtes, be broughte unto him; to be present at all 
admissions and payinge of wages; to see that all en- 
teryes be duly made in the lidger booke, and the evi- 
dence well and safelye layde up and kepte; to keepe 
the keyes of the voyde lodgings, and to deliver them 
to the next brother or syster newlye appointed; to 
looke in tyme to reparations, and to all other good 
husbandry of the hospitall; to foresee that fyre or can- 
dells be not daungerouslye kepte; to require and ex- 
acte of eache one of the poore brethren and systers 
the observation of the ordinaunces and statuts; and 
suche as be necligente and faultye gentlye to admonishe 
them, or, yf the qualitie of the faulte so require, to 
complayne of the delinquents unto the Archbyshopp 
of Canterburye, or, the see archiepiscopall beinge 
voyde, unto the Custos Spiritualitatis of the see o* 
Canterbury for the tyme beinge, to whome I give aur 



312 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

thoritie to redress the same, accordinge to his dyscre- 
tion. 

Cap. V. — Who shalbe chosen into the Hospitall, and 
the severall Degrees of them. 

In the firste degree of the poore brethren that are 
to be placed in the sayde hospitall, I ordeine, that 
suche men, beinge honest, well reported, aged lx yeres 
at the leaste, poore, and not otherwyse able to get their 
livinge, who have served in howsholde the Arch- 
byshopp of Canterbury, shalbe preferred before all 
others, so that there be not above three of them of the 
sayde hospitall at one tyme; and before all others, 
those that have served myself, or be aim unto me, be- 
ing impotente, and not able otherwyse to gett theyr 
livinge, thoe they be under the age before mentioned, 
or above the foresayde number. 

I ordeine in the seconde degree, that, before others, 
suche men and women of the parishes of Croydon and 
Lambethe shalbe preferred, beinge honest persons and 
of goode reporte, of the age of lx yeares at the leaste, 
and of the pooreste sorte, being impotente, and not 
otherwyse able to get theyr livinges. 

I doe ordeine, that the thirde degree, in defecte of 
all the former, before all others, shalbe preferred thi- 
ther such poore honest persons of good reporte, be- 
inge of the age of lx yers at the leaste, as be of suche 
parishes within the countye of Kent, whereof the par- 
sonage is appropriate unto the archiepiscopall see of 
Canterbury; and before others, those cheyfly of suche 
parishes whereof the sayde see dothe receave most re- 
venewe: Provided, that this ordinaunce be not ex- 
tended to any suche poore as are otherwyse provided 



APPENDIX. 313 

for in any of the sayd parishes, or in any other places. 
Neither shall this ordinaunce, or any thinge conteyned 
in this chapter, be extended to that poore brother who 
is to be appointed for the scholemaster. 

Cap. VI. — Off the Admittance of the Members of the 
sayde Hospitall, 

The sayde schoolemaster, warden, and every other 
poore brother and syster of the sayde hospitall, not 
being dumb or deaffe, shall, in the hall of the hospi- 
tall, before theyr placinge, in the presence of the school- 
master, wardeine, and senior brother, or any two of 
them, whereof the warden to be one, yf that place be 
then full, not onlye take a corporall oathe of obedience 
and allegiance to the Queens Majestie, her lawful 
heyers and successors, so as by lawe is prescribed; 
but also this oathe hereinfollowinge, viz. — 

" I, A. B., from hensforthe, as longe as I shall 
remayne a member of this hospytall, shall and 
will, by God's assistance, do my beste endevor to 
obey, performe, and fullfill the ordinaunces and 
constitutions of the same, insomuche thereof as 
dothe concerne me: I shall not any tyme here- 
after wyllingly procure or give assente unto any 
endaungeringe, hurte, or endammaginge of the 
sayde hospitall, eyther in the state or any the he- 
reditaments, or in any the moveable goods there- 
of; but, to my best powre and skyll, shall defende 
and sett forward the good estate, commodity, and 
wellfare thereof, whilest I live: So help me God 
in Christe Jesus." 



314 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Cap. VII. — Off the Office of the poore Brother that 
is appointed to be Schoolemaster. 

The schoolemaster shall freelye teache suche of the 
chilldren of the parishe of Croydon, withoute exactinge 
any thinge for they re teachinge, as are of the poorer 
sorte, suche as shalbe so accounted by the vycar or cu- 
rate of Croydon, and two of the better sorte of the in- 
habytants in Croydon : But yet y t it shalbe lawfull to 
and for the sayde schoolemaster to receave that which 
is voluntaryly bestowde uppon him by any of the sayde 
poorer sorte of parishioners, and for the children of 
suche as be of the better sorte of the parishioners of 
Croydon: Yf the sayde schoolemaster shall exacte 
tomuche for theyr teachinge, or refuse to teache them, 
the same shall be ordered or moderated by the Arch- 
byshopp of Canterburye for the tyme beinge. 

Bothe the saide schoolemaster and scollers shall 
frome tyme to tyme be ordered, governed, and directed, 
by suche prescriptions and ordinaunces, in all points, 
as by me the founder of the sayde hospitall shalbe in 
my lyfe-tyme devised, and after by my successors Arch- 
byshopps of Canterbury, soe that all ways the saide or- 
dinaunces of my successors be not contrarye to my or- 
dinaunces. 

Cap. VIII. — Of the Yearelye Proportion of Allowance 
of the Members of the Hospitall. 

Firste, The custos or wardeine shall have yerely six 
pounds extraordinary allowance; the schoolmaster, be- 
inge a member of the sayde hospitall, shall have yerely 
twenty poundes ; and every other poore brother and 



APPENDIX. 315 

systere of the sayde hospitall shall have yerely five 
pounds apece allowance, over and besyde such wood, 
corne, and other provisions to eache of the brethren 
and systers, as nowe or hereafter shall, by God's pro- 
vidence, and by the devotion of charitable-minded 
men, be allotted unto the sayde hospitall; the expence 
in monye to be payde unto them every quarter, and 
the yere to begin at the feaste of St. Mychaell tharch- 
angell. 

Cap. IX. — Off the Bookes and Register of the Hospi- 
tall, and of Receipte of Rentes, $c. 

Allso, there shall be a fayre lidger booke made and 
kepte in a chest, with locke and keye, standinge in 
suche a chamber in one of the gatehowses as I shall 
appointe, wherein by the schoolemaster shalbe entered 
and regestered the names, ages, qualietye, and tymes 
of every admittaunce of warden, poore brother and 
syster, and the tymes of theyr deathes or removeinges; 
also, there shalbe another fayre lidger booke in the 
sayde chest, wherein shalbe fayre entered the coppyes 
of all leases and other graunts that be alreadie in lease, 
or hereafter shalbe made by the sayde hospitall; and a 
third lydger booke in the sayde cheste, wherein shalbe 
fayre enterid the names and severall gyfts of all their 
benefactors, the inventorye of all theyr moveables; 
and generally, all other things of momente, from tyme 
to tyme, shalbe regestred, that do any way concerne 
the sayde hospytall, as in theis ordinaunces hereafter 
is expressed. 

The sayde custos or wardeine, and the schoole- 



316 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

master, and the claviger or chest-keeper, or two of 
them, shall receave the rents of the sayde hospitall, 
and dystribute the same to eache, accordinge as is afore 
lymmyted. 

Cap. X. — Off daylie Prayer to be used in the Hospi- 
tall, and other Exercises of Piety, 

The schoolemaster, besides teachinge of his schol- 
lers, and makinge enteryes into the lidger bookes, and 
doinge othere duties appointed unto him in theis ordi- 
naunces, shall saye publyke prayers, moreninge and 
eavenninge, in the chappell of the hospitall, to the bro- 
thers and systers, on all dayes (beinge workinge days) 
excepte Wednesdays and Frydays in the forenoone, 
and Satterdays in the afternoone. 

All the bretheren and systers of the hospitall, beinge 
at home, not sicke, nor otherwyse lame, and unable to 
go so far, and excepte the porter, and some one in 
course to tarry att home to keepe the howse in ab- 
cence of the reste, shall, on the Saboth days, Feasti- 
vall days, Wednesdays and Frydays at morninge and 
eaveninge prayers, and upon Satterdays at eaveninge 
prayre, resorte orderlye by two and two together to 
the parishe churche of Croydon, there to pray de- 
voutlye with the reste of the congregation, and namelie 
for the preservation of the Queenes Maiestie and her 
realmes ; to give God thanks for theyr founder, bene- 
factors, and for all other God's benefytts, and to here 
the Worde of God; and there to be partakers of the 
Holy Sacramente of the Lord's Supper, at the leaste 
thrise everye yere : Provided, that this ordinaunce be 



APPENDIX. 317 

not extended to the scoolemaster, for Wednesdays and 
Frydays, nor for the manner of goinge to the churche. 

Allso, I doe ordeine, that, on the reste of all the 
workinge days, moreninge and eaveninge prayer shalbe 
accordinge to the Book of Common Prayre, to be 
sayde by the schoolemaster in the chappell of the hos* 
pitall, unto whyche all the bretheren and systers shall 
duly resorte, unless they be sicke, or otherwyse so 
lame as that thereby they shalbe unable to come thy- 
ther ; and that some one of the companye be weekelye 
appointed by the wardein to note suche as are absente 
frome prayers, and to gyve theyre names daylye to the 
sayde warden; the sayde moreninge and eaveninge 
prayers to be sayde att suche hours as the sayde 
schoolemaster shall thinke fytteste. Yff any, other- 
wyse than as afore, shall absente themselves from 
prayers, eyther att the parrishe churche or at the 
chappell in the hospitall, wythoute a sufficiente cause, 
to be allowed by the wardeine; for the firste tyme, 
suche shall forfeite one oB ; for the seconde, i d. ; and 
soe for everye tyme after, in eache monethe as is afore- 
sayde, to be abated and defaulted frome theyr allow- 
aunce at the paye daye happeninge next after suche 
theire defaulte, one thirde parte of suche forfeytures 
to be imployede unto the porter for that monethe, and 
the other two thirds to the common cheste: But in 
case any one, withoute such cause as is aforesayde, 
shalbe founde to have forfeited, in eache of any fowre 
monthes happeninge in one yere, the sayde yeare to 
beginne to be accounted at the feaste of Saincte My- 
chaell, so muche as shall amounte above a thirde parte 



318 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

of his monethlye allowaunce; then, for every suche 
default happened in any one yeare, the necligente per- 
son shall have one solemne admonition given him by 
the wardeine and schoolmaster, which shalbe entred 
in the lidger booke; but yf, after thre admonitions, 
the same partye shalbe founde agayne to have offend- 
ed in the same kinde, he or she shall then, for a necli- 
gente and an incorrigible parson, be expelled frome 
the hospitall, never to be receavide theare agayne. 

Cap. XL — Of the Porter, and Ms Office. 

I doe ordeine, that the wardeine shall, uppon the 
firste daye of every monethe, nominate one of the bre- 
thren, whome he shall think fittest, to be porter for 
the reste of that instant moneth. 

The office off the porter shalbe to ringe a lytle bell 
twice eache moreninge and eaveninge (unto prayers), 
the one ringinge to be a quarter of an houre afore the 
other; allso, to receave the keyes of the gates of the 
hospitall frome the wardeine eache moreninge, be- 
twixte the feaste of Thannunciation and Sainct My- 
chaell, aboute seaven of the clocke, and then to open 
the foregate, and to shott yt at eighte of the clok in 
the eaveninge during that tyme, and to carry the keyes 
to the wardeine eache nighte ; and from the feaste of 
St. Mychaell unto the feaste of Thannunciation, toe 
open the gates aboute eighte in the moreninge, and to 
shutt them at seaven of the clocke at nighte, and then 
to carry the keys to the wardeine. 



APPENDIX. 319 

Cap. XII. — In whate Wordlye Busines they of the 
Hospytall may exercise themselves. 

It shalbe lawfull for any of the brothers and systers, 
havinge skill in any manuall trade, to worke on the 
same, within the hospitall or withoute, thereby to get 
some parte of theire lyvinge ; or for any of the brothers 
and systers, beinge able in bodye, to exercise them- 
selves in any honest handy labor of the bodye abrode; 
yet so as that, without especiall leave of the wardeine, 
they do not in suche respecte lodge owte of the hospi- 
tall above one nighte in any one weeke. Provided al- 
ways, that none of them kepe any alehowses or vital- 
inge howses, or suche lyke, eyther within the sayde 
hospytall or without, uppon payne of losinge theyr 
places ipso facto. 

It shall not be lawfull for any member of my sayde 
hospitall, eyther by themselves or by any other, to 
begg or crave of any parson or parsons, eyther wythin 
the towne or ells where. Suche as shalbe fownde so 
to doe, after two admonitions given by the wardeine, 
who by vertue of his oathe (after notice had thereof) 
shall charge him to performe, to bee foorthwith expel- 
led the sayde hospitall. Nevertheles, yt shalbe law- 
full for them to receave the almes and benevolence of 
any parson or parsons voluntarelye offeringe the same, 
wythoute such kinde of begginge or craving; the same 
to be distributed in common to the poore of the saide 
hospitall, when yt shall come to such a quantitie as the 
reste may be partakers thereof. In the meane tyme, 
the same to be put in a box prepared for that purpose ; 
of which box there must be two severall locks and 



320 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

keyes, the one keye to be kepte by the wardeine, the 
other by the schoolmaster for the tyme beinge; and 
once in every quarter the box to be opened in the 
presence of most parte of the brethren and sisters, and 
the mony to be devyded amonge the hole companye : 
Provided allways, that the schoolemaster shall have 
noe parte of this almes and benevolence: Provided 
likewyse, that yf any thinge be bestowede uppon any 
perticuler parson, in respecte of kindred, sickness, or 
other impotencie, that wholye shall goe to the partie 
on whome yt is perticulerlye bestowed. 

Cap. XIII. — What Crimes and other Inconveniences 
are to be avoyded, and uppon whate Pennalties. 
If anie brother or syster shalbe convinted of any 
kinde of incontinencie, forgerie, periurye, obstinate in 
heresye, sorcerye, or of any kinde of charmmynge or 
witchcrafte, or of any cryme by the lawes punisheable 
by loss of lyefe or lyme, or of eare, or shalbe publique- 
ly sett on the pillorie, or whipped, for any offence by 
them committed; or shall obstinately refuse to fre- 
quente devine service by lawe established; immea- 
diatelye thereuppon, and uppon confession, or con- 
vinction, suche brother or syster by the Archbyshopp 
of Canterbury, or by some to be deputed by him, or, 
that see beinge voyde, by the parson of Lambethe, and 
vicar or curate of Croydon, shalbe displeaced, and 
shall never be receavid in thether againe : Yff anie 
brother or syster shalbe a blasphemer of God's Holy 
Name, a swere, a gamester at any unlawfull game, a 
drunkard, or an hauter of taverns or alehowses, a 
brawler, fighter, contentious parson, scolde, or sower 



APPENDIX. 321 

of discorde, and thereof shalbe convicted, by confes- 
sion or honeste proofe, before the vycar or curate of 
Croydon, the wardeineof the sayd hospitall, the schoole- 
master, or any two of them; suche offender shall, for 
the fyrste tyme, have a solemne admonition given, to 
be entred in the lidger booke ; for the seconde tyme, 
shall forfeyte one moneth's allowaunce to the common 
cheste of the hospitall, and shall have another solemne 
admonition given as before ; and yf he or shee offende 
in the lyke the third tyme, or in any other, the offences 
here named, to be expelled the hospitall forever. 

Every brother or syster, withoute sufficient cawse, 
to be allowede by the wardein, shall nightly lodge 
within the hospitall, uppon payne to forfeyte owte of 
the next monethes allowaunce, for the first tyme anie 
one yere, two pence ; for the seconde offence in the 
same yere, fowre pence; for the thirde suche offence, 
eighte pence; for the fowrthe suche, two shillings; for 
the fifte suche, the hole next monethes allowaunce; all 
which forfeitures shalbe appliede to the common cheste ; 
for the sixt suche, to have a solemne admonition given, 
to be entered into the lydger booke; for the seaventhe 
suche offence in any one yere, which shalbe accounted 
to begynn at the feaste of Saincte Mychaell, another 
admonition lykewyse to be given and entered; and for 
the next suche faulte happeninge within the space of 
the same yere, to loose his or her place in the hospi- 
tall: Savinge that yt shalbe lawfull for any brother or 
syster, havinge a good cawse, and with lycens of the 
wardeine, the sayde licens and the day of theyr goinge 
forthe beinge first entered in the lidger booke, to be 
away for the space of two moneths in any one yere, be- 

Y 



322 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

ginninge att Mychalmas, eyther alltogether or at seve- 
rall tymes; and savinge, that the schoolemaster shall 
not be any waye comprysed in this ordinaunce. 

Cap. XIV. — Off Care to bee had of suche as be SicJce 
or Irnpotente. 

For tendinge and comfortinge the sicke, in tyme of 
theyr sickness, and those that be irnpotente through 
age, or otherwyse be unable to help themselves, I do 
ordeine and appointe, that not onely all the systers 
shall, from tyme to tyme, do their carefull endevours 
towards them, even as themselves wolde wyshe to be 
respected by others in their owne extremities; but also 
I do ordeyne, that two of the systers, whome the war- 
deine shall thinke most fitt for that purpose, and shall 
nominate yerely the next day after the feaste of St. 
Mychaell, shall not refuse to looke more perticulerlye 
and especially to that Christian dutie as to theire owne 
more peculier charge and office, who shalbe called the 
Relievers of the Irnpotente, and, havinge well and 
carefully performed that charge, shall have, at the 
ende of eache yeere, six shillings and eighte pence a 
yere, in augmentation of their allowaunce, owte of the 
common cheste ; and yf any so appointed by the war- 
deine shall refuse to take that charge uppon them, 
then the paretie so refusinge to be debarred frome re- 
ceavinge any waygers or allowances for that yeare, the 
same to be put in the common cheste, to the use of 
the hospitall. 



APPENDIX. 323 



Cap. XV. — Off the Howse of the Evidences, Chest es, 
and Comon Seale* 

Whereas I have allotted owte a speciall roome in 
the gatehowse next unto the streete, for keepinge of 
the evidences of the lands and revenewes of my sayde 
hospitall, and for other thinges of some momente, be- 
inge not of dayly use ; I doe ordeine, that in the sayde 
roome shalbe one cheste wythe three lockes and keyes 
of severall wardes and fashions ; one keye whereof to 
be kepte by the wardeine, another by the sayde 
schoolemaster, and the third by the auncienteste bro- 
ther, soe he be able to goe and walke abroade, or ells 
the next in auncientye that is able ; in whiche cheste 
shalbe kepte the comon seale, one coppy of theis or- 
dinaunces, and suche stocke of mony as, yearlye re- 
mayninge after all allowaunces, shalbe reservyd for 
reparations and for other necessarye disbursmentes. 

I doe ordeine also, that in the same roome there 
shalbe one other cheste, wherein shalbe kepte the 
foundation and donation of the hospitall, and all other 
evidens whatsoever, well sorted, accordinge to the se- 
verall percells of landes, into severall greate boxes, 
superscribed wythe papers of direction; and also in 
the same cheste shalbe put all rentalls, surveys, ter- 
rars, with buttalls and roundes, courte deedes, year- 
leye accounts of the hospitall, and counterpartes of 
leases. This cheste shall have three lockes, and three 
keyes of several wardes and fashions ; one keye to be 
kepte by the wardeine, another keye by the scoole- 
master for the tyme beinge, and the thirde keye by one 

Y 2 



324 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

of the bretheren, to be yearlye chosen by the more 
parte of the bretherene of the sayde hospitall. 

I ordeine, that noe parcell of evidence shall at any 
tyme be taken forthe thence, but upon especiall occa- 
sion; and then also not to be longer kepte frome 
thence then necessary occasion for the use thereof 
shall require. 

There shall also remayne in the sayde cheste a pa- 
per booke, wherein shalbe entered the parcell of all 
evidences from tyme to tyme taken fourethe, the day 
and yere when, and to whose hands yt is to be deli- 
vered, and for howe longe tyme as is presupposed ; and 
the day also and yeare shalbe entred, when and by 
whome suche parcell of evidence is redelivered in 
againe. 

Cap. XVI. — Howe there Lande, $c., shalbe demised, 
and with whate Governaunce, $c; howe iheire 
Woodes are to be kepte, and bothe Landes and 
Woodes surveyede. 

No lease nor other graunte shalbe made of any 
landes, tenements, or hereditaments belonginge to the 
sayde hospitall, unless bothe the wardeine, the schoole- 
master, and also the greater parte besydes them of 
the reste of the poore brethren, shall yelde their con- 
sents thereunto; nor unless the accustomed yerely 
rente thereof (or more) be thereuppon reservid, and 
payable quarterlye, or at the leaste halfe-yerely, att or 
within the sayde hospitall ; nor yf suche lease or graunte 
be above one and twentye yeres frome the makinge of 
the same, andwyth reservation of all timber-trees; nor 



APPENDIX. 325 

unless in the sayde lease be conteyned trewe and per- 
fecte percells and quantitye of landes, by common esti- 
mation, with the buttalles and boundalls thereof (yf 
convenientlye yt may be) ; also, in every suche lease or 
graunte shall a provisoe be conteyned, that the farmer 
shall paye the rente at the hospitall, wythin twentye 
days next ensuinge any one rente-day lymeted for pay- 
inge thereof, wythoute any demande to be made: Fur- 
thermore, in eache lease or graunte to be made, shall 
covenaunts to the effecte followinge be conte}ned; 
that is to saye, firste, that the leassee, at his owne 
proper costs and charges, not only repayr, and, yf 
neede be, redifie all edifices thereuppon; and so well 
redifiede and repayred shall leave them at the ende of 
the terme; but also shall, frome tyme to tyme, hedge, 
fence, dyche, and scowre, accordinge to the usuall 
course of husbandry of the countrye where the sayde 
lands shall lye: Secondlye, that the leassee shall beare, 
pay, and discharge, or save harmles, the sayde hospi- 
tall, of and frome all charges, ordinarye and extraor- 
dinary, goinge oute or to be payde by reason of the 
landes demysed, or any parte thereof: Lastlie, that 
the leassee, betwixte every eighte and nynethe yeares 
of the sayde terme, shall make or cause to be made, 
and wrytten fayre in parchmente and deliver upp to 
the wardeine at the hospitall a trewe and perfecte ter- 
rar, conteyninge the name and quantitie, by estima- 
tion, of every percell of ground demysed, the names 
of the scituation and lyinge of the same towards other 
lands, and the names of the presente owners and terre 
tenaunts of the lands which are of any side abuttinge 
uppon the grounds demysed. Also, I doe ordeyne 



326 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

and appointe, that the sayde hospitall, uppon any re- 
servation or otherwise, shall not encrease the rents or 
revenues of those lands I leave, or shall give them any 
higher or greater proportion then as the rents thereof 
now are, and accordinge to that rate they are nowe 
lett for. 

Allso, I doe ordeine, that, in renewinge and lettinge 
of leaseas, the presente farmers be allways preferred, 
doinge reasonably for the benefite of the hospitall, as 
other men will doe ; and amonge the reste, I wyll have 
those especially favoured who have theire leases from 
myself. 

And allso, I do ordeine and appointe, that such 
mony as they shall rayse or make in fines uppon leases, 
or uppon sale of woods or trees, or by overpluss of 
theyr yearelye reavenues or otherwise (all necessary 
charges being deducted) shalbe layde upp in theyr 
comon treasorie, and kepte together untill yt wyle or 
shall amounte to the sume of a hundrethe pounds ; and 
then the overpluss of that sume of a hundred pounds 
shalbe equalye devided by the wardeine and schoole- 
master for the tyme beinge (calling to them two of the 
senior brethren) amongste all the poore brethren and 
systers of the sayde hospitall, and then to have theyre 
equall portions wyth the reste; which sayde some of 
one hundrethe pounds or under shalbe preserved and 
kepte in the place aforesayde, for any extraordinary 
occasions, as, for sutes in lawe, reparations of the 
sayde hospitall and schoolehowse, and suche lyke; and 
as the same shalbe by such charges demyneshed, so to 
be allways replenished wyth lyke receiptes, as they 
shall come, in or be receavide. 



APPENDIX. 327 

Provided alwaies, and my meaninge is, that for all 
woodes belonginge to the sayde hospitall as shalbe 
lefte unleassed, that the yerely value thereof shalbe 
taken as parte of theyre yerelye revenue, and not to be 
raysed in stocke, as in the laste article, but onely such 
trees and woods as are not annuall in profit^ but maye 
be comodiouse in tyme. 

Cap. XVII. — The Revennues off the Hospitall, by 
whome to be received and disbursed, and of a 
yearely Account. 

All the rentes and revennues shalbe payde in the 
hospitall, to the handes of the wardeine and schoole- 
master, and the other claviger, who all shall write an 
acquitance for eache receipte. But, yf eyther of theis 
places be voyde, or eyther of them be so sicke, or 
otherwyse absente, that they cannot be presente at 
suche paymente, then shall yt be done in the presence 
of the next two poore brethren in auntyentry that are 
able to stirr abroade, they callinge unto them (yf nei- 
ther of them cann wryte) some of the brethren that 
cann write; and in defecte hereof, some other honeste 
person who is able to wryte; and ymediatlye upon 
suche receipte, an entrye thereof shalbe made into the 
lidger booke ; and then shall the mony be presentlye 
layde up in the common chest, there to remayne tell 
ther be occasion of disbursmente thereof againe: In 
the afternone of the firste day of every quarter, the 
thre clavigers, or cheste keepers, taking forethe of the 
comon cheste so muche mony onlye as then is to bee 
disbursed, shall presently, in the hall of the sayde 
hospitall, paye unto every one of the brethren and 



328 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

systers, or, in case any be sicke or owte of towne, to 
theyr attorney, beinge one of the brethren, theire se- 
verall due allowances, makinge presently a note of the 
recept thereof in the lidger booke. 

When any other occasion besydes the quarterly 
wages dothe happen for disbursmente of monye, as, 
for reparations, sutes in lawe, or suche lyke, the same 
shall also, wythe the day, occasion, and in whose pre- 
sence and to whose hande yt was delivered, together 
wythe the hande or marke that receivid yt, be entred 
in the lydger booke. 

Everie yeare, on the fourethe day of December, the 
schoolemaster, in the presence of the other two clavi- 
gers, and of all the other brethren and systers that 
cann and wilbe presente, havinge caste up afore and 
sumed all accounts, aswell of receptes as of disburs- 
ments, for the yere endinge at the feaste of St. My- 
chaell next afore, shall declare unto them and goe 
over the perticulers of all the accounts for the sayde 
hole yere, that the estate of the hospitall howe that yt 
standethe may yerely so appere unto every one of 
them ; and yf any arrerages be then fownde to be in 
any the accomptants hands, the same shall, eyther pre- 
sentely, or within thre days at the furtheste, be deli- 
vered in unto the clavigers, and shalbe layde upp in 
the common cheste, uppon payne of loss of the next 
monethes allowance unto the comon cheste of him that 
shalbe so behinde and in arrerages; but, yf within 
twentye eighte days next after the sayde three days 
expired, the whole arreragis shal not be payde, then 
suche one shall loose his place ipso facto, and be suede 
in lawe for the arrerages remayninge in his hands. 



APPENDIX. 329 

Cap. XVIII. — Off the Reparations of the Hospitall, 
and by whome and when to be performed. 

Iff anie glasse windowe be broken, or other decaye, 
by wyllfullness or necligence, be made in any private 
roome of the hospitall, the same, uppon wareninge 
given by the wardeine, shalbe amendid within one 
monethe, by him or her, and at his or her charges 
whome the roome is, uppon payne to loose foure pence 
for every weeke after tell yt be mendid ; yff the glass 
of any publique roome be broken, and not beinge 
knowne by whose default yt was done, yt shalbe re- 
payred againe by the overseer of the work, at the pub- 
lik charges of the hospitall; the howse allotted for the 
schoolemaster to dwell in shalbe repayred at the costs 
and charges of the schoolemaster, uppon suche penal- 
ties as the Archbyshopp of Canterbury for the tyme 
beinge shall thinke conveniente. 

Everie yeare, the nexte day after the feaste of St. 
Mychaell, the wardeine and the schoolemaster shall 
appointe one of the brethren (thoughte to be moste 
fitt thereunto) to be overseer of the workes and repar- 
ations of the hospitall and schoole-howse, for the yere 
ensuinge; whose offyce shalbe, dyligente to provyde 
that noe decays be left unrepaired, but amended, be- 
twixt the feaste of the annunciation of the Blessed 
Virgin and of St. Mychaell tharchangell; but, yf any 
tyle be fallen off, or suche decaye happen as cann 
abyde noe delaye, the same to be wythe all convenient 
speede repayrede, thoughe yt be in the winter tyme. 



330 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

Cap. XIX Howe the Wardeine and Schoolemaster 

shalbe censured, yf he or they shalbe fownde to be 
necligente in performynge suche Duties as by theis 
Ordinaunces are imposed uppon him or them. 

I doe ordeine, that yf the wardeine of my sayde hos- 
pitall or schoolemaster shalbe founde to be necligente 
in performyng the charge by these ordinaunces im- 
posed uppon him or them ; then, uppon notyce thereof 
given to the Archbyshop of Canterburye for the tyme 
beinge, suche ponishmente shall be inflicted upon him 
or them, as the sayde Archbishop, in his dyscretion, 
shall thinke conveniente. 

Cap. XX. — Touchinge the Chambers which the Fownd- 
er reservethe to himself. 

Item, I doe ordeine, and my will is, that the cham- 
ber over the hall, and the two chambers over the inner 
gatehowse, shalbe reservid to myselfe, and to myowne 
use, during my liefe; and after my deathe, my will 
and meaninge is, that my executors shall have and en- 
ioy the sayde chambers for one hole yere next after 
my deathe; and that, after the experation of the same 
yeare, my brother George Whitegifte shall have and 
enioye the same chambers duringe his lyfe: Provided 
allwayes, that he do not assigne the same over to any 
other, nor place any therein, unless yt be some of the 
members of that my hospitall ; and after his deathe or 
relinquishmente, the same chambers to remayne to the 
wardeine of the sayde hospitall, and his successors for 
ever. 



APPENDIX. 331 

Cap. XXL — Off the Founder, Visitor, and Cheiffe 
Governor of the Hospitall. 

It shalbe lawfull for me, the nowe Archbishop of 
Canterbury, founder of the sayde hospitall, to abro- 
gate, add unto, chaunge, or alter, theis ordinaunces, 
and to place or displace anie member thereof, wythe 
cause, or wythoute cause to be rendred thereof unto 
any other, to dispose of the lodgeings in and wythoute 
the sayde hospitall, to lett leases, and helpe to governe 
the same, according as shall please me, duringe my 
natural lyffe, withoute any other persons intermedlinge 
therein. After the death of me the sayde fownder, 
then the Archbishop of Canterbury for the tyme be- 
inge, bye himself or other whome he shall appointe, 
shall have full powre and authoritie, from tyme to 
tyme, not onely to interprett any doughte arisinge out 
of the ordinaunces which bye me the founder shalbe 
lefte unto the hospitall, but allso shall have full powre, 
libertye, and authoritie, to ponishe, confine, and re- 
move anie member thereof convicted accordinge to 
theise ordinaunces. 

I doe ordeine, that my successors, Archbishops of 
Canterbury, shalbe the continewall patrons, governors, 
and visitors of the sayde hospitall; earnestlye request- 
inge them (in the bowelles of Christe) to have, frome 
tyme to tyme, a fatherly and compassionate care of 
theire good estate, and of the poore members thereof; 
and that they wolde be pleased from tyme to tyme (as 
occasion shalbe offered) to compose theyr controver- 
sies, to protecte, advise, order, governe, and direct 
them, and, when neede shall require, by themselves, or 



332 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

bye such discreite persons as they shall thinke fitt, in 
personn freelye to visite the sayde hospitall, and to en- 
quire bothe of the publique state of itt, and also of the 
private demeanure of every per ticuler member thereof, 
by suche a course as the lawes dothe allowe; which 
visitation I wolde hartilye wishe might at the leaste 
every third yeare be performed, whether there seeme 
anie necessarie occasion thereof or noe. 

Also, I doe ordeine, that once in the yeare at the 
leaste, within tenn days after the feaste of St. Mychaell, 
theis ordinaunces and statutes shalbe openlye reade 
in the chappell of the sayde hospitall, and all the bre- 
theren and systers admonished to be theare presente* 
And, for the better governemente of this my hospitall, 
becawse I understande of some discordes breedinge 
amongeste the poore that are therein allreaddy by me 
placed, for wante of some discretion and understand- 
inge to directe them in observinge the orders and sta- 
tutes of this my hospitall; therefore, I doe ordeine 
and appointe, that the vicar of Croydon allwayes, for 
the tyme beinge, shall have the oversighte of the war- 
deine and poore there, aswell to directe them in the 
observinge, as to ponishe them accordinge to the sayde 
lawes and statutes of my hospitall (yf they) in theyr se- 
verall places and offices do not theyr duties according- 
lye; and to this purpose, I will allwayes have one cop- 
pie of theis my sayde ordinaunces and statutes to re^ 
mayne wythe the sayde vicar for the tyme beinge, 
harteley prayinge him, and in the name of God charg- 
inge him, duly to performe the truste by me reposed 
in him : Provided airways, that this statute and ordi- 
naunce doe not derogate any authoritie from the Arch- 



APPENDIX. 333 

bishop of Canterburye for the tyme beinge, given unto 
him by my former statutes and ordinaunces, or due 
unto him as vysytor of my sayde hospitall. 

Jo. Cantuar*. 

And whereas Samuell Fynche, the nowe minister of 
Croydon, hathe taken verye greate care and paynes 
about the buyldinge and erectinge of this my hospitall; 
and in hope that he will continewe the lyke care of the 
same after my deceass, and endevor the best he maye 
to see my statutes and ordinaunces kepte and perform- 
ed, accordinge as by my late letters I have authorised 
him; 

I doe therefore nowe ordeine and appointe, that he 
shoulde have, during his life, yearely payde unto him, 
after my deceass, the some of six pounds thirtene shil- 
lings and foure pence, quarterly, at suche tymes as the 
other pensions beforementioned to the poore are to be 
payde att. And after his deceass, the sayde pention 
to ceasse, and not to be payde to any other; but to 
remayne to the use of my said hospitall only. 

Jo. Cantuarien. 



No. XL 

A Case resolved touching my HospitalL {From a 
MS. in the Lambeth Library, No. 275). 

The Archebishopp of Canterburie houldeth his 
mannour of Croydon of the Queene in frankallmo} ne. 



334 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

One that houldeth of the same Archbishopp as of 
his said mannour in soccage geeveth his tenancy to the 
Bishopp and to his heires. 

Quere, howe this tenancy nowe in the hands of the 
Bishopp is holden, in regarde of his severall capa- 
cities? 

Whether alltogether suspended, or of the Queene 
in capite? and howe, upon the bargaine and sale, or 
other like conveyance, the tenor will then bee ? 

And quere, which is the surest meanes for the 
Bishopp to give his tenancy to his Hospital, because 
the statute alloweth no capite lands to be given? 

It is holden verie clere, and without any doubte, 
that by the purchase of the tenancy there is no altera- 
tion of the service, but that the tenancy is holden in 
soccage, ut prius, of the seignory suspended; for that 
it is in the Lord Archebishopp in divers respects, and 
his estate in the tenancy is free, and in the seignory 
but for life in a manner, and that in this case there is 
no tenure of the Queen's Majestie during the suspen- 
sion. 

By the opinion of 
The Lord Anderson, Chief Justice of the Com- 
mon Pleas. 
Justice Gawdie, Secondarie Justice of the King's 

Benche. 
Justice Wamesley, Secondarie Justice of the Com- 
mon Pleas. 
Justice Glanvile, Puisne Justice of the Common 
Pleas. 

Per me W. Combe. 



APPENDIX. 335 



No. XII. 

Negotium Dedicationis § Assignations novce Capellce 
sive Or at or ii Ho spit alls vocati Hospitals Sanctce 
Trinitatis, in Croydon, ex fundatione Johannis 
Whitegifte, Archiepiscopi Cantuarien. ad Usum 
Pauperum ejusdem Hospitalis noviter erecti § fun- 
dati. (From a MS. in the Lambeth Library, No. 275). 

Die Lunae, nono viz. die mensis Julii, anno Domini 
millesimo quingentesimo nonagesimo nono, dictus Re- 
verendissimus in Xpo pater, fundator ejusdem Hospi- 
talis & Capellae sive Oratorii, ac Ordinarius illius loci, 
in palatio suo de Croydon, in praesentia mei Thomas 
Redman Notarii publici specialiter assumpti, &c. com- 
misit vices reverendis in Xpo patribus ac dominis dnis 
Richardo London' et Anthonio Cicestren' respective 
epis, commissionis et deputations ad dictam novam 
Capellam sive Oratorium hospitalis vocati Hospitalis 
Sanctae Trinitatis, in Croydon, ex fundatione Johannis 
Whitegifte, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, divino cultui, 
et divinorum celebrationis ac verbi Dei praedicationi, 
quantum de jure possit, et per leges et statuta hujus 
inclyti Regni Angliae licebit, dedicandum et assignan- 
dum, ac ad nominandum eandem Capellam sive Ora- 
torium per nomen Capellae sive Oratorii Hospitalis 
Sanctae Trinitatis, in Croydon, ex fundatione Johan- 
nis Whitegifte, Archiepiscopi Cantuarien'; necnon ad 
procedendum, decernendum, et faciendum in dicto ne- 
gotio, juxta statuta, leges, canones, ordinationes, ritus, 



336 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

et consuetudines Ecclesiae Anglicanae in ea parte sta- 
bility et nunc usitat' et observat'. Et deinde dictus 
reverendissimus pater decrevit ut tempore dedicationis 
ejusdem Capellae sive Oratorii divinae preces celebren- 
tur, ac sacra concio publice ibidem habeatur, et assig- 
navit pro ea vice in concionatorem magistrum Thomam 
Monforde, sacrae theologiae doctorem, ad concionandum 
et praedicandum verbum Dei in dicta Capella sive Ora- 
torio praedicto, et constituit diem in quo praemissa pe- 
ragentur, viz. diem decimum praesentis mensis, Anno 
Domini 1599 praedicto; praesentibus tunc ibidem, ac 
praemissa omnia videntibus et audientibus, atque ad 
eadem testificandum specialiter requisitis et rogatis, 
venerabilibus viris WilPmo Barlow*, sacrae theologiae 
professore; Johanne Parker, armigero; Edwardo Ayl- 
worth, armigero; Will'mo Thornhill, artium magistro; 
Michaele Murgatrode, Francisco Butler, Will'mo Bees- 
ton, et Richardo Massinger, geherosis, &c. 

Thom. Redman, Notarius Publicus. 

Quo quidem decimo die mensis praesentis Julii anno 
Domini 1599 praedicto adveniente, inter horas octavam 
et duodecimam ante meridiem ejusdem diei, praefatus 
reverendus pater dris Richardus London' episcopus in 
dicta Capella sive Oratorio personaliter praesens et se- 
dens, ob honorem et reverentiam dicto reverendissimo 
patri debitam, onus executionis dictae commissionis 
sive deputationis in se acceptando, ac virtute ejusdem 
commissionis sive deputationis procedendo, dictam Ca- 
pellam sive Oratorium divino cultui, divinorum cele- 

* Afterwards Bishop of Lincoln. 



APPENDIX. 337 

brationi, ac verbi Dei concionandi et proponendi usui, 
quantum de jure potuit, et per statuta et leges hujus 
inclyti Regni Angliae licet, dedicavit, per nomen Ca- 
pellae sive Oratorii Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis, in 
Croydon, ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte, Archie- 
piscopi Cantuariensis, et sic dedicatum et assignatum 
esse, et in futurum perpetuis temporibus remanere de- 
bere, palam et publice denunciavit; eamque Capellam 
sive Oratorium per nomen Capellae sive Oratorii Hos- 
pitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon, ex fundatione 
Johannis Whitegifte, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, per- 
petuis temporibus futuris nominandum et appellandum 
fore decrevit, et sic nominavit et appellavit. Quibus 
sic gestis, tunc et ibidem preces Deo Optimo Maximo 
juxta formam descriptam in libro publicarum precum 
authoritate parliamenti hujus inclyti Regni Angliae 
stabilito celebratae fuerunt, atque immediate verbi Dei 
concio per dictum magistrum Thomam Monforde sa- 
crae theologiae doctorem (ut praefatus) designatum pub- 
lice facta fuit ; praesentibus tunc et ibidem, ac praemis- 
sa omnia videntibus et audientibus, et ad eadem testi- 
ficanda specialiter requisitis, reverendo patre dno An- 
thonio Cicestrien' episcopo, venerabilibus viris Ed- 
wardo Stanhope, Daniele Dun, et Richardo Swale, le- 
gum doctoribus, Will'mo Barlow, presbytero, sacrae 
theologiae professore, capellano dicti reverendissimi 
patris, Johanne Parker et Edwardo Aylworth, armi- 
geris, Michaele Murgatrode, Georgio Whitegifte, et 
Georgio Paule, generosis, Will'mo Thornhill, presbi- 
tero, in artibus magistro, capellano dicti reverendissi- 
mi patris, Johanne Scott, Abrahamo Hartwell, Chris- 



338 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

tofero Wormeall, et Richardo Massinger, generosis, et 

multis aliis in numero copioso congregatis. Super 

quibus, &c. 

Thom. Redman, 

Notarius Publicus, antedictus. 



No. XIII. 

A Forme of givinge my Almes-men their Roomes, 
(From a MS. in the Lambeth Library, No. 275). 

Johannes, Providentia divina Cantuariensis Archie- 
piscopus, totius Angliae Primas et Metropolitanus : 
Dilecto nobis in Christo A. B. salutem in Domino 
sempiternam. Debilitatem tui corporis, paupertatem, 
et senium attendentes, locum & allocationem unius 
pauperum Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon, ex 
fundatione nostri Johannis Whitegifte, Archiepiscopi 
Cantuariensis, tibi ad terminum vitae sua3, & ad susten- 
tationem tuae paupertatis, concedimus per praesentes; 
statuta & ordinationes ejusdem hospitalis volentes & 
te firmiter injungentes custodire, & in omnibus obser- 
vare. In cujus rei testimonium, &c. 



APPENDIX. 339 



No. XIV. 



Eight Letters from the Rev. Samuel Finch, Vicar of 
Croydon, relative to Whitgift's Hospital. {From the 
Originals, in the Lambeth MS. Library, No. 275). 



I. — To the moste reverende Father in God my verie 
good Lorde the Archbushop of Canterburie, his 
Grace at Lambith, with speed. 

My humble duetie remembred unto your Grace. 

Yesterday, being Thursday, Wolnier the bricklayer 

was here to vewe your worke. And he sayeth that he 

cannot be here himselfe: but he wyll appointe one 

from Westminster to be here, who will not come under 

xviiid. the day, and his laborer xiid. Hyllarie sayth, 

he canne bringe one presently whome he knoweth, and 

will warrant to take the charge, and discharge it with 

credit, for xvid. a day; and laborers we canne have 

inowe: thers vli. a yeare saved in iid. a day wages. 

And beside the master workeman muste be here still 

to conferre with the carpenter. Thus muche Hillarie 

tolde me ; but he knoweth not of this intelligence unto 

your Grace. The yarde ys all defenced in, strong and 

saffe. This day we make an ende in pullinge downe 

as yet. Nowe we take morter-makinge in hande, clens- 

inge and leavellinge of the grounde ; and by Monday 

come sevenighte, Hillarie saith, we shall be readie for 

the foundacon and bricklayer. Weeks the bricklar 

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340 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

hath bene at your brick -clamps, and commendes them 
for verie good. We have our sande from Dubbers 
Hill: for the Parke fayleth. Thus muche I thought 
good to signirle to your Grace; and I pray God pros- 
per the worke, and blesse your Grace with health to 
see it in prosperitie to Gods glorie. Amen. From 
Croydon, this Fryday the viiith of Februarii, A 1596, 
R. R. E. 39. Your Graces in all duetie bounde, 

Samuell Finche, Vycar. 

II. — To his assuered and verie lovinge Friend, Mr. 
Woormall, at Lambeth. 

With my verie heartie commendacons to yourselfe, 
Mrs. Wormall, and my wyfe, and the like from her 
daughter to you all, with as hartie thanks to Almightie 
God for Mr. Comptroller's dissolucon from the bon- 
dage of his corrupte bodie, into the glorious lybertie, 
noe doubte, of God's children. Sir, assure yourselfe, 
I forget not that it is meete that his Grace beginne the 
foundacon. But yt will not be readie for his Grace 
tyll Monday come sevenighte. By Hyllaries choyce, 
one Henry Blease and John Greene, bricklayers, and 
my parishioners, have joyntlye taken the charge of the 
bricklayinge worke, and have xvd. apeece the day. 
Blease hath begunne the ground worke nexte the high- 
way leadinge to London; and findinge that grounde 
made and false, digged the trenche alonge the door 
unto some iiii foote deepe and iii foote wide, and ware 
little or nothinge combred with water; and findinge 
firme grounde, they have filled up that trenche with 
great flinte and small stone, and brickbatts, and rub- 
bushe, not confusedly, but orderlye layed in, and ram- 



APPENDIX. 341 

med stronglye, course upon course, stronge and sure. 
This trenclie revomed those small stones that lay in the 
court yarde, which his Grace made the boyes gather 
out of the church yarde, and some halfe dosen loads of 
small stone fetched out of Smithdoune bottome, which 
were there redie gathered the last yeare for the high- 
waies; and from thence we fetche still and lay by; the 
same receaved also the moste parte of those stones his 
Grace did see in the yarde there. We have also pro- 
vided cartes to fetche us great flinte and chalke for the 
buildinge, and small for flllinge: because the lower 
grounde is not soe good and firme as the upper, and 
the waite of the worke may not be trusted only uppon 
brycke; and four loads of flinte, which come to xs. 
will well save one thousand of bricke at xvi s. I need 
not tell you that I shall lacke monie for this weeke, 
because the bearer herof ys Wm. Tagburne, who had 
v H. of me this morninge to bye two horse tomorrowe 
in Smithfeilde. I knowe he will tell you of it, and 
therefore you need say nothinge therof. The laborers 
have digged up iiii skulls and the bones of deade per- 
sones in the trenche that they are nowe in digginge, 
nexte the highway leadinge to the Parke. Thus we 
woulde be glad all might be well to his Grace's good 
lykinge. And soe fare you well. From Croydon, this 
Thursday morninge, the xviiith of February, 1596. 
Yours as his owne, 

Samuell Finche. 



342 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

III. — To his assuered and verie lovinge Freinde, Mr. 
Wormeall, at Lambith. 

With my verie heartie commendacons, I received 
this morninge of Wm. Tagburne xxli. from his Grace, 
as appeareth in my note. And, God willinge, his 
Grace shall not be defrauded in stufFe, worke, or 
wages, as long as I have the lookinge thereto. For 
the skulls, there were iiii digged up indeed e; and I 
presentlye upon the findinge of the flrste did conferre 
with Outre d, and asked him yf his conscience were 
cleare; and he sayd, that yt was cleare. I reasoned 
also with Morris, an old Welchman that had dwelt 
there a longe tyme, and he knewe nothinge. More- 
over, for a better satisfaccon in this matter, I caused 
Hillarie to caste the measure of the grounde this day. 
And we finde that the bodies coulde not lye within the 
compasse of the howse; for (to the ende that the plotte 
might be caste square) there was v foote taken in of the 
way againste the George, and iiii foote lefte out of the 
grounde (whereon the howse stood) againste the Crowne 
(as Mr. Doctor Bancrofte knoweth well). Soe that 
the skulls being in the trenche nexte to the George, 
Hillarie dare depose they ware without the compasse 
of the howse. Besides, there be manie that canne re- 
member, when they digged in the middest of that 
streate to sette a maypoale there, they found the 
skull and bones of a deade person. Soe that it is ge- 
nerallie supposed that yt hath bene some waste place 
wherin (in the tyme of some mor tali tie) they did burie 
in. And more I cannot learne. 

I thanke God, our groundeworke is greatlye com- 



APPENDIX. 343 

mended of all that vewe the same. And I hope well 
that will like his Grace at his comminge ; for yt is not 
slubbered uppe, but strongley donne. I pray you give 
your wyfe hartie thanks for my wives curteous enter- 
tainemente, lodginge, &c. And I doe thanke you 
bothe for the same. My wife commends her to you. 
She is not verie currante yet. Thus I cease. From 
Croydon, this xixth of February, 1596. Yours as his 
owne, 

Sa. Finche. 

I sende you here the copie of the condicon of the 
Free-masons bonde. 

Nicolas Richardson and Christopher Richardson, 
citizens 'Bnd free-masons of London, and Gabriell Ans- 
combe of Charlton, yeoman, are bounde to Samuell 
Finche, John Kinge, and William Tagburne, in c 
pounds. The bonde beareth date the xix of Febru- 
ary, A.D. 1596. R. R. 39. And here followeth the 
condicon. 

The condicon of this obligacon is such, that if the 
above bounde Nicholas Richardson, Christopher Rich- 
ardson, and Gabriell Anscombe, they or anie of them, 
do bringe, or cause to be broughte, to that place of the 
foresaid Croydon where his Graces hospitall is in build- 
inge, soe muche good and seasoned free-stone as shall 
be sufficiente for those dores and windoes belonginge 
to the said intended hospitall as shall be made of free 
stone; and shall worke the same, and sette them up, 
in suche necessarie and redie manner as that the worke 
or buildinge be not stayed or hindered through there 
defaulte; the dores being wrought fayre and comelie as 



344 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

suche dores ought to be, and the windoes with bowge 
worke; bothe dores and windoes of a lawfull, substan- 
tiall, and sufficient syze, in suche forme and sorte as no 
workman shall justice reprehende or finde faulte with 
either stuffe, workmanship, or size ; receivinge or tak- 
ynge for the said stuffe, provision, bringinge, workinge, 
settinge up, and full finishinge of the same, onelie ixd. 
the foot for the windoes, and x d. the foote for the dore 
cases: Than this present obligacon to be void and of 
none effecte, or else to stand and abide in full force 
and vertue. 

Hereunto (as the manner is) they have sett there 
hands and seales, the day above written, and delivered 
the same in the presence of Antonie Bickerstaffe, 
George Miles, and others. Every one to have v li. in 
hande, viz. on Satmonday next, and vli. more when 
they have brought in xli. worthe of stuffe; and after 
that to be paid as they shall furnishe and finishe. 
Moreover, for the preservacon of the groundworke, 
we have agreed with them to make the water table on 
the foresides for viid. oft. the foote, and the crests as 
hiegh, for the safegarde of the windoes, for viiid. the 
foote. Dated the xxii of February. 

Yours, Sa. Fin che. 

IV. — To his assuered and verie lovinge Freind, Mr. 
Woormall. 

With my verie hartie commendacons from myselfe 
and my wyfe to yourselfe and your wyfe : with the like 
thanks for all the courteous enterteinemente you bothe 
shewed unto my wyfe. Syr, soe it ys, that this good- 



APPENDIX. 345 

lye seasonable weather, as it hath staied our worke 
somewhat this day, soe it do the cause that we shall 
not be readie for his Grace this nexte weeke, viz. un- 
till Monday come sevenighte, for this weather wyll 
not serve for layinge of morter. Neverthelesse, we 
doe goe on with the groundworke. 

First, we have finished the two trenches next the 
Crowne and the George, and made them even with 
the ground. 

Also the ynner trenche, which doth countermaunde 
those other, we have filled and finished on that side 
next the Crowne. We have digged the other that an- 
swers that againste the George, and we have almost 
filled it this afternoone (for feare, if the weather 
breake, it mighte fall in againe). And whereas bothe 
these ynner trenches doe meete with there angle in the 
sellar, we have made up that angle from the bottom of 
the sellar, wall-wyse, with stone and morter, almost 
even with the grounde, and are now fillinge the voyde 
rometh therin with earth and rubbishe. This beinge 
done, we meane to goe in hande with other ground- 
worke, untill the wether serve to worke above grounde ; 
and order our businesse soe to the tyme, that this 
kinde of weather shall not hurte us, and lyttle hinder 
us. Thus I commit you to God. Croydon, this xxvith 
of Februarii, A° 1596. 

Yours as his owne, 

Samuell Finche. 



346 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

V. — To his verie loving e Freinde, Mr. Wormall, at 
Lambith. 

Sir — With my verie hartie commendacons to your- 
selfe and to Mrs. Wormall, I did understande by Mr. 
Mylles, that (upon on Blease his complainte) he had 
moved my L. Gr., as though it ware needfull that our 
workmen-bricklayers shoulde be loked unto (not as a 
caveat for us, but as a reproche to us that be over- 
seers) as though there ware some unskilfull admitted 
alreadie. This Blease is one of those whome Hillarie 
chose with Greene to be those that shoulde take the 
charge of the bricklainge; and in that respecte he is 
allowed, as Greene ys, a penie in a day more than an 
ordinarie workman. Nowe, yf this Blease had had a 
farther insight into mens works than his partener, it 
had bene his parte to have made it knowen to us that 
are overseers, and not to have moved the matter to 
Mr. Mills. But shall I tell you? When these two 
ware chose by Hillarie, Blease begins to take a pride 
in himselfe, as one that woulde challenge or thought 
himselfe worthie of the cheifetie of all, and begins to 
complaine to me againste Hillarie, because he taks up- 
on him both to sette out the bricklayers worke and 
give his advise for the workmen. " For," saith Blease, 
" I knowe better what belongs to our worke than he; 
and yf I be appointed one to take charge, 'tis reason I 
appointe the worke and workmen." I, perceivinge 
this, persuaded Blease to be contente to suffer Hil- 
larie to have an insight into all mens doings. " For," 
said I, " the charge principallie ys his for all; and as 
he hath put you in, soe, yf you contente not yourselfe, 



APPENDIX. 347 

he may put you out: because, whosoever commeth in 
here as bricklayer or bricklayers must be one with 
him. But, goodman Blease," said I, " I doe under- 
stande that you shoote at another matter, which nei- 
ther you, nor Hillarie himselfe, nor never a man here 
shall atteine, if I can knowe yt ; and that is, you woulde 
have the appointement of the workmen under you, to 
make a gaine of ther wages : as, for exemple, here is 
Kilnar, a bricklaier, one commended to us by Rowland 
Kilnar, his Gr. servant, a good workeman; he hath 
xiiiid. a day of us, and you have made him promise 
you iid. a day out of it, pretendinge that he is under 
you, and commeth in by you, when you give him nei- 
ther meate, drinke, nor lodginge; and thus you woulde 
doe with others: but you shall not have your will; and 
if he be meete to serve you for xiid. a day, he shall 
serve my L. soe: yf not, tis noe reason you shoulde 
gaine by his worke to my L. losse; for I have learned 
the tricke of you all; when you gaine by them, you 
suffer them to worke at pleasure ; but if you knowe the 
contrarie, than you haste them on." After this, Blease 
seemed to be verie quiet (as it seemeth, not content- 
ed); for Hillarie and myselfe told him, if he woulde 
not be quiet, that id., which he hath in the day more 
than another, shoulde taken from him. Indeed, hither 
came from Lewsham one Johnson, upon Monday was 
a sevenight, and did thinke to have bene imployed as 
a workman; but we, learninge what his skyll was, did 
not suffer him ; yet Blease, by his leave, as carefull as 
he pretends to be, did suffer him for an hower, till 
Hillarie spied it, and woulde have suffered him as un- 
der him, but we woulde not; and then the fellowe 



348 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

wrought iii days as a laborer, and had ii s. vid., a la- 
borer's wages, as apeareth in the week's accompt 
which you had last. Two other came also on Friday 
last from Lewsham, and pretended they ware work- 
men, and set on to the wall that was made out of the 
sellar; but one of them proved none, and was paid as 
a laborer, for a day and an halfe, xvd., as apeareth in 
the accompt, and soe departed. Why? what are these 
matters to troble my L. with ? We shall have ynough 
hereof yer the worke be ended, as I told Mr. Mills. 
Tis noe caveat to mee : for I knowe in a multitude 
there will fall out suche matters. " We," said I, 
meaninge myselfe, my father Hillarie, and William 
Tagburne, " will and doe joyne together as one, for 
the furtheraunce of his Gr. worke ; and if we cannot 
appease, we will thruste out unrulie persons." And I 
pray you hartelie, Mr. Wormall, acquaint his Gr. with 
these my letters, as in your discretion you shall finde 
best opportunitie. Soe fare you well. Nowe this 
harde weather we get in carriages of stone and bricke, 
and make redie our chalke-pitts, and meddle not with 
other worke. We cannot as yet bargaine with a brick- 
maker, neither will we unadvisedlie. We will see the 
worke goe on, and howe our owne may serve. Iterum 
vale. 

Yours, Samuell Finche. 
Croydon, Marche 3. 

VI. — To my verie lovinge Freinde, Mr. Wormall, at 
Lambith. 

With my verie hartie commendacons, &c. Rednap 
came hither this day; and assone as ever he came into 



APPENDIX. 349 

the yarde, and sawe the bricks, his harte was deade. 
He went to them, and chose here one, and there, and 
knockt on it, and said, " he hoped there war better to 
be founde in the Parke." To the Parke we came, 
and there wente from clampe to clampe; and here he 
found and there some one or moe good, but not to the 
purpose of his owne expectation. Fain he woulde 
have excused himselfe, but his handieworke spake 
against him; and we ware soe rounde with him, that 
he burste out into teares, sayinge, " he was never the 
lyke served in anie worke (he was ashamde of it); he 
coulde not excuse it ; yt was the wickedness and de- 
ceitfulnesse of the yearth. And albeit he coulde not 
thoroughlie make amends, yet he coulde be contente 
to doe what lay in him ; but not of that yearth." Well, 
than, to the lome-pitts beyond Dubbers-hill we came, 
neere Halinge-gate (where bricks had bene made in 
tyme past). There he founde suche moulde as con- 
tented him, and with much parlinge was contente to 
give my L. the makinge of fiftie thousande, and of x 
thousande for waste, (nothinge in comparison, but yet 
as much as we coulde get him to yealde unto), and to 
make 1 thousande more at the price he made for in the 
Parke, having all necessaries founde him as he had in 
the Parke. And there, wood must be had of from the 
farme-grounde, and water fetched in a carte from the 
other Halinge-gate. And these bricks shall be readie 
for us before Whitsontide. Only he requested his 
Gr. letters to Sir John Box (in whose worke he is) 
that he will be contente to spare him till he served our 
turne, which he knoweth he both may and will. And 



350 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

howe all this may be accepted of, he lokes for present 
answere. 

Besides this, you shall receave of this bearer a pa- 
terne of the hospitall-gate, from the Free-masons; and 
by this paterae, vewe may be taken where his Gr. 
armes shall be placed, and where the dedication 
S. Trinitati. There is space one eache side for 
Vincit qui. — — Patitur, &c. And for a enteringe 
stone of eache side, one with the armes of Woster, 
and the other what else is thought good. 

I pray you, let the armes be drawen out in suche 

full proportion as his Gr. will have them, and the place 

sett down where, and the inscripcons what, that all 

things may be to his Gr. best likinge. And this must 

be returned with the paterae by Saturday nexte*. 

And soe I commit you to God. Croydon, this vii of 

Marche, 1596. 

Yours as his owne, 

I understand by your letters Samuell Finche. 

you remember to sende monie. 

* The following directions were sent, by way of answer, from 
Mr. Wormeall : — 

For the Foregate of the Hospital at Croydon. 
The armes over the doore must be without helmet and mantel- 
ling, and must be the armes of the See of Canterburie, viz. the Pall 
in pale, with the nowe Archebyshopp's armes, and the yeare of the 
Lord under them, viz. 1597. Over the said armes a free-stone 
square, with theis words in great letters, viz. Sanct^e Trinitati 
Sacr. On the bare places over the gate, called (as I thinke) the 
Ashler, this sentence following to be written in great capital letters, 
viz. — 

Prov. 28. Qui dat Pauperi, non indigebit. 



APPENDIX. 351 

VII. — To his assuered and verie lovinge Friend, Mr. 
Wormeall, at Lambith* 
Mr. Wormeall, with my hartie commendacbns to 
yourselfe, with praises to God for Mrs. WormealPs 
good recoverie, &c. I received this morninge your 
letter, which doth satisfie me well, both for Birk's 
matter and inquirie about his lease, &c. Sir, I re- 
turne you heare his bill of suche charge as his Gr., of 
his owne gracious motion, wylled shoulde be imployed 
upon the chauncell called the Bushop's Chauncell; 
which war soe donne. And I sawe the leade weighed 
to and fro. In his Gr. note I doe not give his chaun- 
cell that name, onelie because this his doinge shall be 
noe president of claime hereafter ; and soe I pray you 
shewe his Gr. For as the parishes reparacons are re- 
gistred in there churche booke, soe will this. And 
therfore I will loke to it, that it breed no prejudice 
hereafter. And thus fare you well. Croydon, this 
xxviiith of October, 1600. 

His Gr. charge of his chauncell cometh to xxxviis. 
ixd. 

Your lovinge freind, 

Samuell Fynche. 

VIII. — To his assuered and verie lovinge Freind, Mr. 
Wormeall, at Lambith. 

Mr. Wormeall, with my verie hartye commendacbns, 
I send you here inclosed an accompte of the voluntarie 
charge his Gr. hath bene at this yeare, in repayringe 
the chappell of Croydon churche, which is nexte to 
his mannor there. I sende you also a note of the 



352 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

whole charge his Gr. hath bene at about the same, 
both last yeare and this. For the accompte, I thought 
good not to make it with the accompt of the hospitall, 
because the worke ys dyvers; albeit I have more mo- 
nie of his Gr. in my hands than this cometh to. For 
the note, I sende yt because his Gr. may knowe what 
the whole charge ys that he hath bene at that way. 
And I may tell you, for that Mr. Weller tolde me, that 
Robert Jones movinge my L. Admirall about his con- 
tribucon to the repaire of our churche, he should aske 
What my L. of Canterburie gave ; soe I acquainted Mr. 
Wellar with my L. his charge, to see if his Gr. ex- 
ample will drawe on anie other. Moreover, I pray 
you shewe his Gr. that mother Dyble, one of his Gr. 
pore in his hospitall, ys dead this laste nighte ; her al- 
lowance of iis. a weeke ceaseth. Albeit, Margaret her 
daughter is in good hope to supplie her mother's 
romthe, at least for her abydinge there, whiche (as I 
tell her) I cannot promise her, untill I knowe his Gr. 
pleasure. Thus I cease to troble you anie farther. 
From Croydon, this xviiith day of November, 1600. 
Yours as his owne, 

Samuell Fynche. 



APPENDIX. 353 



No. XV. 

Visitatio Hospitalis SHe Trinitatis in Croydon, au- 
thoritate reverendissimi X'topatris Gulielmi archiep' 
Can?, in capella sive oratorio ejusd\ 11 Aug 9 1634, 
coram d 9 no Edmondo Scott, milite, et Samuele Ber- 
nard, S. T. B., commissariis d'ni reverendissimi pa- 
tris, inter horas nonam et undecimam ante meridiem 
ejusdem diei, in prcesentia mei Sacvili Wade, N. P. 
(Ex Reg. Laud,fol. 206 a). 



Articles minis tred by the most reverend Father in God 
William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, his Grace 
Primate of all England and Metropolitan, to the 
Hospital of the Holy Trinity, in Croydon, Aug. 11, 
1634. 

1. Imprimis, Whether the said lord archbishop is, 
and hath been, by your founder, and by letters patents 
under the great seal of England, appointed and au- 
thorized visitor of your hospital, and hath power to 
punish such offences as are contrary to the statutes 
and ordinances of the said hospital and the founder's 
intention? and hath also power to injoyne unto you 
orders for the good of your hospital, as often as his 
Grace shall see cause? 

2. Item, What are the yearly revenues of the said 

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354 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

hospital, with the woodsales, and all other extraordi- 
nary receipts? 

3. Item, What are the ordinary charges that go out 
thereof singulis annis, and what extraordinary? 

4. Item, How many loads of wood are yearly, one 
year with another, felled on grounds and lands belong- 
ing to the said hospital; and to what uses was and is 
the same yearly converted? 

5. Item, How many beds are there for the poor of 
the said hospital, and what other goods, household 
stuff, and utensils of household, are there in the said 
hospital, and thereto belonging? 

6. Item, Whether there be belonging to the said 
hospital a common chest, to keep all the donations, 
charters, and evidences of the said hospital in? 

7. Item, Whether there be a perfect terrier of all 
such lands and possessions, and an inventory of all 
such goods as belong to the same hospital? 

8. Item, What leases there be made of the same 
possessions, and to whom they be made, and by whom 
they were made, and when? and for how many years, 
or what other terms? 

9. Item, What fines have been taken for the said 
leases respectively, and by whom; and whether the 
same have been wholly employed to the use of the said 
hospital; or whether any part thereof have been em- 
ployed to the private use of some other, and of whom? 

10. Item, Whether any goods, moveable or immove- 
able, appertaining to the said hospital, are sold away? 
and when, and by whom, and for how much, were the 
same sold, and to whom? 

11. Item, Whether have the poor of the said hospi- 



APPENDIX. 355 

tal their due allowance, according to the ordinances 
and statutes of the said hospital, and as they ought to 
have — as meat, drink, lodging, and apparel; and if 
not, hy whose default is it? 

12. Item, Have you, or any of you, taken any mo- 
ney for admittance of any the poor men, women, or 
children, into the same hospital, or for procuring them 
so to be admitted? 

13. Item, Whether the master, warden, schoolmas- 
ter, usher, or any of the almsmen or officers of the said 
hospital, have offended against the statutes and ordi- 
nances of the said hospital; and when, and wherein? 

14. Item, Whether the schoolmaster and the usher 
perform their duties, in instructing the youth commit- 
ted to their charge? and whether is the schoolhouse 
and schoolmaster's house kept in such repair as is fit- 
ting? and whether do the schoolmaster and the usher 
carry themselves sober and free from scandal, as the 
statutes require? and whether doth the schoolmaster 
duly read divine prayers in the hospital chapel, as is 
required ? 

15. Item, Do any of you know any thing concerning 
the said hospital, or any part or member thereof, that 
is fit to be amended? declare it, and free your con- 
sciences. 



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356 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



No. XVI. 

Heads of Orders for the Charity Schoolefor ten poor 
Boys and ten poor Girls, founded by Thomas Te- 
nison, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, at Croydon, 
March 25th, 1714. (From a MS. in the Lambeth 
Library, No. 806. 5, intituled " Croydon School 
Orders"). 

1. This schoole is to consist, at present, of a school- 
master and mistress, Mr. Henry Zealy and Mary his 
wife, who shall teach no other children hut what be- 
longs to this school, namely, ten poor boys and ten 
poor girls. 

2. The master and mistris shall always be profest 
members of the church of England, of sober life and 
conversation ; either to be twenty-five years of age at 
the least; they must frequent the holy communion, and 
understand well the principles of the Christian reli- 
gion. 

3. The master shall be able to write a good round 
hand, and understand the grounds of arithmetick, and 
teach the children the true spelling of words, with the 
points and stops to true reading. 

4. The master shall, twice a week at the least, in- 
struct all the children in the church catechisme, and 
by some exposition approved of by 

5. No boy or girl to be under eight years old when 
admitted, nor to stay till after fourteen, unless it be to 
even the quarter then going on. 



APPENDIX. 357 

6. Each boy and girl to be sent in cloathed whole 
and clean. 

7. A Common Prayer Book and Bible to be provid- 
ed for each boy and girl. 

8. The boys are to be taught to read, write, and 
arithmetick ; the girls the same, also to spin, knit, sew, 
and work. 

9. They are to come to school in the summer at se- 
ven in the morning, and stay till eleven; to come again 
in the afternoon at one, and stay till five. Summer to 
be reckoned from Lady-day to Michaelmas. 

10. In winter to come at eight in the morning, and 
stay till eleven ; to come again in the afternoon at one, 
and stay till four. 

11. Every Lord's day and every holiday, and every 
Wednesday and Friday, they are to go to church two 
by two, to set orderly in their proper seat, and make 
the answers at the prayers, and sing the psalms. 

12. They are to break up at Christmas, Easter, and 
Whitsuntide, and have the usual liberties as at other 
schools. 

13. On Thursday they are to leave school at 3 of the 
clock in the afternoon. 

14. On Saturday in the afternoon, the girls, five at 
a time, in such order as may be most easy,, are to help 
to clean the house. 

15. Absence from school, or great crimes, as lying, 
swearing, stealing, prophanation of the Lord's day, 
shall be noted in weekly bills, to be laid before the 
trustees at their meeting, in order to their correction 
or expulsion. 



358 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

16. The mistress shall weekly chuse one girl to be 
her particular assistant for the week. 

17. If the parent, brother, or sister of any one in the 
school shall steal any thing from Norwood, the child 
related to them shall immediately be expelled, and for- 
feit the school cloaths and books. 

18. If any one of the children of the school shall 
leave or be taken from the school before they have 
learnt what the statutes shall direct, the cloaths and 
books belonging to such shall be left for another. 

19. If the parents or friends send not the children 
clean, decent, washed, and combed, or not at the 
school hours, or any ways hinder them from observing 
the orders of the school, such children to be dis- 
missed. 

20. No child whose parents frequent the meeting- 
houses shall be admitted, or continue if admitted. 

21. The trustees are to meet on the Tuesday after 
every quarter day, to look into the state and condition 
of the school; and then these orders are to be read 
publickly before them, the master and mistress, and 
all the children. 

22. The trustees shall pay unto the master and mis- 
tress each pounds quarterly, out of estate pur- 
chased by the founder, Thomas, Lord Archbishop of 
Canterbury, for the perpetual support of this very 
charity schoole. 

23. It shall be lawfull for me, Thomas, the now Arch- 
bishop of Canterbury, founder of the said school, to 
abrogate, add unto, change, or alter these orders, to 
place or displace any part thereof, and wholly to go- 



APPENDIX. 359 

vern the same, according as shall to me seem reason- 
able, during my natural life, without any other person 
intermeddling therein. 

24. The school master and mistress to sit rent-free 
in the new school house purchased and fitted up by 
his Grace, Thomas, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, 
situate in the parish of Croydon. 

25. No child to be admitted whose parents are not 
legally settled as inhabitants of the parish of Croydon. 

26. At their coming in the morning, the master, or 
one of the scholars appointed by him, is to begin with 
the prayer, " Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings," 
&c. ; then the collect for the day; and then the col- 
lect for the fifth Sunday after Trinity, " Grant, O 
Lord, we beseech thee, that the course of this world 
may be so peaceably ordered," &c. 

27. At night, at their going away, they shall say the 
collect for the day, and then the collect for the fourth 
Sunday after Trinity, " O God, the protector of all 
that trust in thee," &c. ; and also, " Lighten our dark- 
ness," &c. 

They must be charged when they go to bed to say 
(as in Psalm 4th, unto verse 9th), " I will lay me down 
in peace and take my rest, for it is thou, Lord, that 
makest me dwell in safety." 



360 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

No. XVII. 

Acts of Parliament. 

For repairing Croydon Church— I Geo. 3, c. 38. 

For selling the Palace— 20 Geo. 3, c. 57. 

For inclosing the parish — 37 Geo. 3, c. 144. 

For a canal from Croydon to the Grand Surry Ca- 
nal— 41 Geo. 3, c. 15, and 51 Geo. 3, c. 11. 

For inclosing the waste lands — 43 Geo. 3, c. 53. 

For re-building the Court House, &c. — 46 Geo. 3, 
c. 130. 

For making a road from Foxley-hatch, in Croydon, 
to Riegate— 47 Geo. 3, c. 25. 



No. XVIII. 

The Case of the Inhabitants of the Town and Parish 
of Croydon, in the County of Surrey, concerning the 
great Oppressions they ly under, by reason of the 
unparalleled Extortions, and violent, illegal, and 
unwarrantable Prosecutions of Doctor William Clei- 
ver, Vicar of the said Parish: Humbly presented to 
the Consideration of Parliament. 

[First printed in 1673]. 

The said Doctor William Cleiver, in the times of 
the late Rebellion, obtained a sequestered living, call- 
ed Ashton, in Northamptonshire, in which he behaved 



APPENDIX. 361 

himself much unlike a clergie-man, as will appear by 
the articles annexed, the which were in those days ex- 
hibited against him. However, there he continued to 
persecute the poor people till some time after his Ma- 
jesty's most happy restoration to his crown and dig- 
nity; when Doctor Whitford, the person sequestred 
out of the said living, being about seventy years of 
age, and living, was restored to his benefice. When 
Cleiver got this living, he entertained one Mr. Preston 
to be his reader, who accepted thereof, served and of- 
ficiated there in that capacity; but Cleiver would ne- 
ver pay him his wages ; so that he might have starved, 
if some of the parishioners (to whom by stealth he did 
sometimes read common prayers and divine service,) 
had not given him relief; for which Cleiver caused 
him to be sent for up to London, by a messenger; and, 
being so old that he could not ride on horse-back, he 
was brought up in a cart stuiFt with straw, and kept 
at London till utterly ruined ; and then they released 
him. 

The articles exhibited against the said Cleiver by 
the said parishioners were as follows: — 

Articles exhibited against William Cleiver, Minister 
of Ashton, in the County of Northampton. 

First, That the said Cleiver is a very covetous man, 
and doth endeavour unjustly to exact and extort sums 
of money and other things from the said parishioners, 
and others that he hath to deal for. 

The said Cleiver did unjustly demand a cow for a 
herriot, of Sarah Honor, a poor widow, whose hus- 



362 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

band was lately dead, and died so poor that the parish 
was forced to bury him at their charge, he leaving his 
said wife with five small children, and nothing to main- 
tain them but that one cow ; and it was never known 
that any herriot was there paid. And, the better to 
procure his end therein, the said Cleiver promised her, 
that if she would let him have the cow, he would pro- 
cure her a warrant from the justice of the peace, that 
the parish should pay her weekly one shilling, for the 
maintenance of herself and children. 

The said Cleiver hath several times unjustly detained 
and withheld the wages of labourers from them, who 
had painfully and faithfully done their duties. 

He caused a poor widow (whose husband was then 
lately dead, and she herself being then very sick and 
weak, and almost blind, and left in debt fifty pounds 
at least, having four small children, unable to maintain 
themselves,) to pay him the tenth penny for a calf, 
which she sold towards the payment of her husband's 
debts, and enforced her to pay two-pence for the head 
and pluck, which she had reserved for herself. 

The said Cleiver hath pulled down a great part of 
the parsonage-house, and converted the materials there- 
of to his own use. 

The said Cleiver, notwithstanding his parsonge at 
Ashton is worth one hundred and twenty pounds by 
the year, at least; yet, for the lucre of money, did un- 
dertake to serve another cure of twenty pounds by the 
year; by means whereof he served neither of them as 
he ought to do. 

The said Cleiver is a very contentious man, and doth 



APPENDIX. 363 

much vex, and trouble, and disquiet his neighbours, 
parishioners, and others, by unjust suits and malicious 
troubles. 

The said Cleiver did, in a clandestine way, procure a 
bond which was made to a sergeant at arms for secu- 
rity, and sued one Bud worth, who was surety herein, 
upon the same, and recovered fifty pounds of him, and 
caused him to spend fifty pounds more, at least, not- 
withstanding the sergeant of arms was never damnified 
one penny thereby. 

The said Cleiver hath, at the last assizes in the county 
of Northampton, indicted a gentlewoman of his parish, 
of good parentage, and of worth and quality, for felony, 
for stealing of his horse; and himself and his wife and 
maid gave evidence thereupon, and would have brought 
the gentlewoman's life in question, if he possibly could 
have done it; and, when the grand jury had returned 
the bill Ignoramus, he gave out in speeches, that he 
had sufficiently disparaged the gentlewoman by what 
he had done. 

That he hath commenced suits against divers of his 
parishioners who were willing to pay him his just dues, 
because they would not pay what he would unjustly 
have exacted and extorted from them. 

He hath refused to pay just debts owing by him, and 
hath declared, he would rather spend one hundred 
pounds in law, than pay five pounds when he is sued 
for it, though it were due. 

The said Cleiver is very weak, unable, and insufficient 
for the ministrial function, and idle, and will not take 
pains therein as he ought to do, nor perform what of 
duty he ought : For, 



364 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

He doth ordinarily preach other men's works, ver- 
batim, that are in print, which the parishioners have in 
their houses, and can read at home. 

He hath several times in his sermons uttered and 
spoke nonsense. 

He hath neglected his cure upon several Lord's days, 
to prosecute contentious suits and quarrels, and for his 
own ease, and procured none to supply the same. 

Refused to baptize the child of a visible believer, 
being tendered, and the father present. 

Refused to baptize the child of a soldier that was in 
service, because the father was not present ; and the 
child died within few days. 

The said Cleiver is scandalouse in his life and con- 
versation. For, 

First, He is a liar, and a common speaker of un- 
truths. 

Secondly, He did privately keep in his house one 
Mistris Bernard, widow, six or seven weeks together, 
and denied that she was there; and afterwards kept 
her publicly, having no relation to her, and now keep- 
eth her as his wife ; but whether they were ever mar- 
ried according to the laws is not known. 

That he the said Cleiver hath been drunk, and 
abused himself with excess. 

The King's Majesty being restored, the sequestred 
incumbent, Doctor Whitford, entered upon the said liv- 
ing; and Doctor Cleiver, being thereupon to seek for a 
benefice, came to London, and then pretended himself 
to be a zealous son of the church (though for ten years 
before he had possest the sequestred living, and vio- 
lently prosecuted his reader, for reading common 



APFENDIX. 365 

prayer, as aforesaid); and, not being well known about 
London, hearing that the vicarage of Croydon was 
void, made friends to the Earl of Clarendon, then Lord 
Chancellor of England, to obtain the same; which he 
effected by the help of a gentleman (to whom he pro- 
mised a good reward for his pains, to be paid so soon 
as the presentation should be sealed); which gentle- 
man, having obtained the presentation, the Doctor got 
it from him, but never paid him to this day, as the 
gentleman reports. 

That, having got this presentation of Croydon, he 
hastened thither. The vicarage consists only of small 
tythes, which at the utmost value is not worth above 
eighty pounds. This, for some time, was paid the Doc- 
tor per annum; who, when he had been a little in the 
parish, and had got all the parishioners' names into his 
book, fell to his old practices of oppression and extor- 
tion, bringing frequently vexatious suits against all or 
most of the parishioners, because they would not com- 
ply with his unconscionable and extravagant demands. 
Under these horrid oppressions the parishioners hav- 
ing many years suffered, and some hundreds of the in- 
habitants ruined thereby, they joined together, and 
caused the said Doctor to be indicted for a common 
barrater ; which was to have come to a trial in Hillary 
Term, 1 673, at the King's Bench bar ; accordingly, the 
jury was summoned, and the informers ready to have 
made good the indictment by above three hundred wit- 
nesses ; but, about two daies before the said trial should 
have been, a Noli Prosequi was entered, by means 
whereof the trial was stopt. 



366 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

This Noli Prosequi was obtained by fraud also ; for 
Cleiver, finding that the parish were resolved for to 
prosecute, came to one Mr. Bickerton, who was then 
one of Mr. Baron Turner's clerks, tells him thereof, 
adding, that he was like to be undone thereby, for that 
the rogues (as he called them) would swear him to be 
a common barrater; then asked him, whether he be- 
lieved there could be such rogues in England? To 
which the said Bickerton replied, that he always sus- 
pected that a mischief would come upon him for his 
continued vexations continued to his poor parishion- 
ers, and wondered they had not done it sooner; add- 
ing, that he believed they had just cause to proceed 
against him, by what he understood of his ways in pro- 
ceeding against them in the Exchequer. Whereupon, 
Cleiver asked if there were no way to stop the trial for 
that time; begged his assistance, if possible, to do 
the same, promising to give him ten pounds for his 
pains, if he succeeded therein. Upon which, Mr. 
Bickerton advised him to get a Noli Prosequi; for 
which purpose, a petition was drawn, setting forth, 
that the parishioners were litigious, factious people; 
would pay him no tythes; but forced him, by means 
thereof, to sue for his dues ; and now had indicted him 
for a common barrater, merely for bringing such his law- 
ful suits against them ; therefore prayed proceedings 
might be stopt. This done, the said Doctor gave 
Bickerton a note under his hand, to pay him ten 
pounds if the suit were stopt that term ; and away he 
went with the petition, to a person that presented it to 
his Majesty, who (being misinformed, and thinking 



APPENDIX. 367 

that the said Doctor might have just occasion to sue, 
as by petition he pretended), did order Mr. Attorney- 
General to enter a Noli Prosequi; and accordingly, a 
Noli Prosequi, reciting his Majesty's command, was 
granted, and the suit stopped; which done, the said 
Doctor went back to Bickerton, and, crying, told him 
his Majesty denied the petition, and that the trial was 
not stopt; desired, therefore, his note again, that he 
had given him for his ten pounds; which Mr. Bicker- 
ton delivered, as thinking Cleiver had spoken truth; 
and so cheated him of his ten pounds promised him 
upon accompt as aforesaid. 

The poor parishioners of Croydon, they were greatly 
troubled, not knowing what to do, being stopt from 
proceedings at law, thereupon went to counsel, and 
were advised to have petitioned the Parliament, then 
sitting, as lying under a grievance, and being denied 
the benefit of the law for their redress ; but, upon ap- 
plication made to the Lord Keeper and Mr. Attorney- 
General that now are, and acquainting them with the 
truth of the case, they did assure the parishioners, 
that his Majesty was surprised with the granting of 
his Noli Prosequi, and undoubtedly would take the 
same off, if addressed unto the Council. 

Whereupon, the 21st cf March, 1672, a petition 
was exhibited to his Majesty, praying that the Noli 
Prosequi might be taken off, and the parishioners left 
to the law ; or, that he would be graciously pleased to 
hear the cause, and relieve them according to justice. 

To which petition was annexed the articles follow- 



368 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 



Articles of high Misdemeanour, humbly exhibited 
to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and the 
Right Honourable the Lords of his most honourable 
Privy Council, by the Inhabitants of the Town of 
Croydon, in the County of Surrey, against Dr. fV. 
Cleiver, Vicar of that Town. 

1. That the said Doctor, by unjust, vexatious, and 
numerous suits, by him frequently brought against his 
parishioners, extorts more from them than what either 
his predecessors claimed or had, or is his due. 

2. He frequently, after he hath been punctually paid 
his full dues, arrests his poor parishioners, and forces 
them to pay the same over again; together with great 
sums for charges, which he pretends he hath been at; 
declaring he will have of them what he pleases, for he 
cannot live on his dues. 

3. He hath served several of the poor people with 
pretended processes, and compels them to pay him 
money when there is nothing due to him from them ; 
and extorts money for the process, when as there was 
never any process pursued other than what was made 
by himself; which is to the great abuse of his Ma- 
jesty's Courts at Westminster. 

4. That he doth very often sue out many writs out of 
the Exchequer against several of the parishioners that 
owe him not a farthing, puts them to vexation, trouble, 
and charge, and then never exhibits any bill against 
them. 

5. That, because one of his parish would not swear 
for him what he would have had him, he vowed he 



APPENDIX. 369 

would sue him as long as he lived; and so hath conti- 
nued to do ever since, to his almost utter ruin. 

6. That he frequently arrests poor people for tithes, 
puts them to great charges, when as they owe him no- 
thing; and, such as are able to make opposition he 
never declares against, but forces the rest to compound, 
and give him what he pleases. 

7. That he hath attached the goods of several per- 
sons, for tithes pretended to be due to him, when as 
none was due from them; hereby put the people to 
charge, done damage to their goods ; and when reple- 
vins have been brought, then he hath never appeared 
or declared. 

8. That he hath imprisoned several persons, and 
detained their goods in his house till he hath forced 
them to give him what money they have, and seal 
bonds to him for other sums of money by him demand- 
ed, when there hath not been one penny due to him. 

9. That, having come to an agreement with several 
persons for their tithes, to take such a sum for them 
yearly, he hath received the sum of money agreed up- 
on, for several years together, and afterwards denied 
the same, and sued the persons for their tithes in kind, 
and the arrears thereof; and, some of the people with 
whom he agreed, being illiterate, trusted him to write 
the agreement; he set down double the sum that was 
agreed upon, got their mark to his book, and sued the 
persons, and forced them to pay the same, together 
with such unreasonable charge as he demanded of 
them. 

10. He hath cited several of his parishioners into 
the spiritual courts for pretended crimes, because he 

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370 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

could not have his unjust demands of them; and when 
he hath so cited them, hath taken sums of money of 
them, to excuse them being prosecuted in the said 
court. 

11. That, having let a lease of his tithes to one Mr. 
Wood, for a certain rent, Wood, by virtue of that 
lease, received tithes of the parishioners, and paid him 
his rent; after which, he sued the parishioners over 
again for the same tithes, and forced them, for quiet- 
ness, to pay him, declaring, the only way to be quiet 
was to pay both Wood and him. 

12. Several poor people having, in the time of the 
late dreadful sickness, buried relations in the woods, 
the said Doctor, in the time of their necessity, was so 
far from extending his charity towards their relief, 
that he forced them to pay unreasonable fees for their 
burials, as if they had been buried by him in the 
church-yard. Those that would not comply with him, 
he sued and extorted great sums of money from them, 
for his charges as well as duties, before he would clear 
his persecution. 

13. He denied to receive his tithes in kind of seve- 
ral of his parishioners, though duly tendered him, and 
he desired to accept of them ; demands of them what 
money he pleases in lieu thereof; and if they do not 
pay what he demands, he sues that at law; and if they 
agree and pay for one, two, three, four, five, or six 
years, at the rate compounded for, then, at the six 
years' end, he demands of them the arrears of tithes, 
pretending the tithes to be of greater yearly value 
than what he compounded for; and if the people will 
not pay what he demands above his composition-mo- 



APPENDIX. 371 

ney paid for three years past, then he sues them, till 
they, by fright, and being put to unreasonable trouble 
and charge, were enforced to give him what he de- 
manded, rather than be undone by contending with 
him ; that being the lesser evil of the two, by him put 
to their choice. 

14. He, by this violent persecution of diverse poor 
men, hath forced them to leave their wives and chil- 
dren, and seek shelter in remote places, to the utter 
ruine of their families. 

15. He demands of the poor inhabitants the tenth 
penny got by their day-labour, and threatens to com- 
pel them to bring their milk into the church porch to 
sell, and there deliver him his tenth. From some he 
hath extorted great sums of money, on pretence that 
he hath been at law with them seven years, whereas 
they were never served with any process. Others he 
hath served with process after they had newly paid 
him his demands, to put them to further vexation and 
charge. One process which he hath taken out against 
a man, he altered it, and made another man pay the 
charges, as if it had been originally made out against 
him. 

16. He frequently extorts great sums of money from 
his parishioners, for marrying out of the parish; and 
those that refuse to pay him what he demands for that 
offence, he refuses to receive their tithes, and then 
sues them for tithes and that together. 

17. Such persons as refuse to pay the said Doctor 
his unjust demands, he will not suffer the clerk to re- 
ceive his just dues, threatening to sue both for his 

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372 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

money and clerk's dues, when as both hath been ten- 
dered, and might have been received without any suit. 

18. He hath arrested several on pretended great ac- 
tions, and thereby kept them in prison, and yet, on 
the trial, could prove nothing against them, to the ut- 
ter ruin of these poor people imprisoned; and hath 
forced several persons to pay him five pounds, when 
his due is but twelve pence. 

By these and the like extortions he makes his living 
above 2501. per annum, which never was worth, to any 
of his predecessors, above 60/., and enricheth himself 
by the ruin of his parishioners, especially the poorer 
sort, that live on the common, whom he endeavours to 
enslave, because they are not able to contend with him 
at law. 

That the petition and articles were read. 

The King's most excellent Majesty, his Royal High- 
ness the Duke of York, and eighteen more of his Ma- 
jesty's most honourable Privy Council, were present ; 
and the order following was made: — 

At the Court of Whitehall, the2lst of March, 1672.— 
Present, the King's most excellent Majesty; his Royal 
Highness the Duke of York; Lord Chancellor; Lord 
Treasurer; Duke of Lauderdale; Duke of Ormond; 
Earl of Bridgewater; Earl of Northampton; Earl of 
Anglesey; Earl of Carlisle; Earl of Arlington; Earl of 
Bath; Earl of Craven; Lord Viscount Falconbridge ; 
Lord Newport; Lord Berkley; Mr. Secretary Coven- 
try; Mr. Chancellor of the Duchy; Master of the 
Ordnance; Sir Thomas Osborne. 



APPENDIX. 373 

The inhabitants of the town of Croydon, in the 
county of Surrey, by their petition this day at the 
board, humbly complaining of the many oppressions, 
extortions, violent and unwarrantable proceedings of 
Dr. William Cleiver, vicar of the said parish of Croy- 
don, against the petitioners, under pretence of reco- 
vering his tithes, insomuch that, in a short time (if re- 
lief be not given) most of the petitioners will be forced 
to leave their dwellings, or be inevitably ruined, as 
some of them, with their families, have already been : 
It was thereupon ordered by his Majesty in council, 
That the petitioners do forthwith deliver in to the 
clerk of the council attending, the particulars where- 
with they intend to charge the said Dr. Cleiver, to the 
end he may have a copy thereof timely enough to come 
prepared to make his defence thereunto, on Friday the 
4th of April next; which time his Majesty hath ap- 
pointed to hear the said complaints; and doth com- 
mand that all parties concerned do then give their at- 
tendance. 

John Nicholas. 

According to this order, a short paper was deliver- 
ed in to the clerk of the council, whereby the parish* 
ioners declared they would insist upon — 

Oppression, extortion, common barratry, suborna- 
tion of perjury, forgery, felony, and some more such 
like petty crimes of his doctorship. But, before the 
cause came to be tried, the act of grace came out; 
and barratry, a thing never pardoned before by any for- 
mer act of grace, was pardoned thereby. 

The 4th of April, 1673, his Majesty was gracious- 



374 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

]y pleased to come early to the council ; and, toge- 
ther with his Royal Highness, and twenty more of 
the Lords of the Privy Council, sat with unspeakable 
patience,, heard the charge against the said Doc- 
tor made good; which was done by the oaths of seve- 
ral persons, in every particular mentioned in the said 
articles ; and many others (if possible more violent and 
heinous than the former) was proved against him. 

1. As. first, he, being one of the trustees of the 
alms-houses in Croydon, would not suffer almes-men to 
be admitted, till he had forced them to promise to al- 
low him one half of the profits of the said alms-houses, 
and took bond for the same; which done, he admitted 
them; and would have turned one Edward Humfry 
out of his alms-house, when he could no longer afford 
to pay him four shillings a month, according to the 
said bond; which Humfry is now turned out by the 
said Doctor. 

2. That, when as the sacrament money hath been 
collected for the poor, he took a third part of it to his 
own use, saying, None was poorer than the vicar, and 
kept it; which hath since prevented men's charity. 

3. That he sent for a man from London, pretending 
he would pay him some money which he owed his fa- 
ther, who was dead. The poor man came to Croydon 
to his house, and was made welcome, and had good 
meat and drink; after which he was carried by the 
Doctor into the garden, made eat fruit; which done, 
he sent him away without a penny of money. But 
that was not all; for, soon after, he arrested the poor 
man in an action of trespass, for two and three hun- 
dred pounds damage, for coming into his ground, 



APPENDIX. 375 

kept him a prisoner till he was forced to seal him a ge- 
neral release, and so cheated him of his debt, which 
was about thirty pounds, and grew due to his father, 
Mr. Preston, as aforesaid, for officiating as curate for 
him at Ashton in Northamptonshire. 

4. They proved that the Doctor had two special 
bayliffs, that do all his business; one of them had been 
burnt in the hand, the other a vile rogue as is in the 
country. These arrest his parishioners; then, bring- 
ing them to his house, there they are kept prisoners 
till he force them to what he pleaseth ; which done, he 
draws them into judgments instead of pretended notes; 
and these are they whom he useth, together with a 
most excellent gentlewoman, Mrs. Ream's daughter- 
in-law, who went there by the name of Mrs. Cleiver; 
who, by the report of the whole country, and people 
at Westminster, had a child before her marriage, lay 
in at Westminster, and the Doctor was much with her, 
and she went for his wife, though her mother was then 
alive; now lives at the Doctor's house, wholly governs 
him, to say no worse ; makes him oppress the people 
as she pleaseth, and is his constant witness to all his 
agreements. 

5. They proved, that when the Doctor hath gone 
into the pulpit to preach, he hath dropt bundles of 
writs out of his pockets, taken out against his parish- 
ioners, and, being taken up and perused, have been 
found to be rased in the dates and in the names, and 
new dates and new names put into them ; which was a 
frequent thing with him, he making twenty warrants 
out against twenty persons upon one single writ, and 
making each person pay seven shillings and sixpence 



376 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

for charges, when the writ cost him not above three 
shillings ; so that he got above seven pound by a writ, 
and made a property of his Majesty's Court of Exche- 
quer, to the enriching himself and impoverishing his 
parishioners. And often, when he should have been 
preaching on Sundays, did use to ride to London, to 
follow suits against his parishioners, leaving them with- 
out any one to preach or read prayers to them. 

6. That he sent for the parishioners to come to his 
house to pay their tithes, and when they had so done, 
frequently arrested some of them in actions of trespass, 
for coming upon his ground, thereby putting to great 
charge, and ruined some of them. 

7. That he hired a carrier to bring his goods to Lon- 
don, which was done ; and in London an old desk was 
stole out of the carrier's warehouse, by his letting his 
goods lie there three weeks after brought up; but the 
man that stole it was catched, the desk brought back 
to the inn, was opened, not knowing whose it was, and 
there was only in it a pair of slippers and one old law 
book. The Doctor arrests the carrier, declares against 
him for 190/., pretended to be in the said desk; the 
carrier, telling his landlord thereof, he produced the 
said desk, with the things aforesaid in it; so the suit 
ceased. 

8. He hath caused the gentry to leave the towne, to 
the ruin thereof; spoiled the school, so that no gentle- 
men came to it. He hath caused lands and houses to 
fall in their rents; brought down the price of them, in 
their sale, above three years' purchase ; makes tenants 
that they will take no lease, unless landlords will cove- 
nant to secure them against him; which they dare not 



APPENDIX. 377 

do; and so the houses and lands stand empty, and lie 
waste. And he hath forced the parishioners to leave 
their parish church, and to keep from receiving the 
sacrament; insomuch that there are not above ten or 
twelve in all (beside alms-people, who are obliged), 
that will come to the church or sacrament ; but if a 
stranger at any time do preach, there come at least six, 
seven, or eight hundred. 

Lastly. That the said Doctor endeavoured to part 
husbands from their wives, raising false stories of them, 
offered himself to sue out divorces. 

And many more crimes of this nature. 

These matters, and also the aforesaid articles, being 
clearly proved, the said Doctor only for defence offer- 
ed, that the petitioners would pay him no tithes, there- 
upon was forced to sue them for his dues ; and prayed 
time to make defence. 

Whereupon, the order following was made: — 

At Whitehall, the 4>th of April, 1673.— Present, the 
King's most excellent Majesty; his Royal Highness 
the Duke of York; his Highness Prince Rupert; 
Lord Chancellor; Lord Treasurer; Duke of Lauder- 
dale; Duke of Ormond; Marquis of Worcester; Earl 
of Ogle; Earl of Ossory; Lord Great Chamberlain; 
Earl of Bridgewater; Earl of Northampton; Earl of 
Anglesey; Earl of Carlisle; Earl of Craven; Earl of 
Arlington; Earl of Carbury; Viscount Hallifax; Mr. 
Secretary Coventry; Mr. Chancellor of the Duchy; 
Master of the Ordnance. 

His Majesty, having this day heard at large the 



378 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

complaints of the inhabitants of the parish of Croydon, 
in Surry, against Dr. Cleiver, vicar of that place, con- 
taining several exorbitant courses by him practised for 
recovery of his tithes, was pleased to refer the whole 
matter to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, and to the Earl of Shaftsbury, Lord High Chan- 
cellor of England ; who, requiring the said Doctor and 
some of the principal persons of the said parish to at- 
tend them, are to endeavour to settle the business for 
the future quiet of the parishioners, and that there 
may be a constant maintenance for the vicar there ; 
which, if their Lordships shall not be able to effect, 
they are to return their opinion and advice to his Ma- 
jesty, what they conceive fit to be done therein. 

John Nicholas. 

With this order his Grace the Lord Archbishop of 
Canterbury and the Right Honourable the Lord High 
Chancellor of England being attended, they were 
pleased to appoint a day in May last past, when both 
parties, with their witnesses, should attend their Lord- 
ships, at Lambeth House, where the matters aforesaid 
were made manifest; as also — 

That the said Doctor Cleiver was a notorious and 
common thief, that used to come into booksellers' 
shops and steal books, and carry them away. Several 
masters of shops gave testimony thereof. To which, 
the Doctor being to give answer, declared, that true 
it was that he was sitting in a shop, reading a book, 
and saw a gentleman come by that he had occasion to 
speak with, and in haste ran after him, and forgot to 
lay down the book, and carried it with him ; but the 



APPENDIX. 379 

man presently followed him, and took it of him. But, 
alas! good gentleman! he had often had this chance 
of following his friends with other men's books under 
his cloak. If he had done so but once, it might have 
passed as forgetfulness; but it fell out very unluckily, 
that, at Mr. Sawbridge's shop, at the Bible, on Lud- 
gate Hill, he came in and took away a book of good 
value, carried it beyond Fleet Bridge, and there was 
overtaken and brought back, and begged pardon, de- 
claring who he was. Mr. Sawbridge thereupon, loth 
to bring any scandal upon a man of his coat, went 
with him to Fetter Lane, to a gentleman's house, to 
inquire of him; and, finding that he was Dr. Cleiver, 
and vicar of Croydon, resolved to make no more noise of 
it, if he would ingenuously confess what books he had 
formerly stolen from him; for that he had often been 
at his shop, and he had often lost books, but never 
knew whom to charge with them. Thereupon, he 
promised he would go home and look over all his 
books, and bring him the names of them, as also mo- 
ney for them; that he never came there again, or sent 
the catalogue of the books he had stolen : but he did 
send his wife to the shop, with about thirty-nine shil- 
lings, and she paid the same for the books he had 
stolen; so that it was not always forgetfulness, or run- 
ning after friends, that made him carry books out of 
the shops. 

The said Doctor being then asked, why, after so 
many arrests, and so many suits against his parishion- 
ers, he never brought any one of them to trial, where- 
by the modus decimandi might have been settled; it 
was proved against him, that, being demanded the 



380 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

same question in the Exchequer, he declared, most 
falsely and scandalously, of his Grace of Canterbury, 
that his Grace had directed him not to do it, because 
the then Lord Chief Baron (now Lord Chief Justice 
Hale) was an enemy to the Church of England. 

Upon the whole matter, his Grace and the Lord 
Chancellor proposed to the parish to settle a certain 
maintenance upon the vicar for the future, that so no 
more suits might arise. To which the parishioners 
most willingly assented, provided the Doctor might be 
removed, and have no benefit thereof; and proposed, 
as poor as he had made them, yet, to be rid of him, 
and to have a good, learned, orthodox, and peaceable 
man settled amongst them, they would make a certain 
allowance of 1201. per annum, to be paid to the suc- 
ceeding vicar, by quarterly payments, without charge 
and trouble. 

No sooner was this proposal made, but Dr. Cleiver, 
who, the world knows, is a most notorious liar (and 
the old proverb is, a liar had need to have a good me- 
mory), starts up; and, although just before he had 
told their Lordships he was forced to bring his ac- 
tions, and to have multiplicity of suits, because his pa- 
rishioners would pay him nothing; that, although he 
had offered them his vicarage at 601., 50/., nay, SOI 
per annum, they refused to take the same; he told 
them that 120/. was nothing, for that the parish had 
offered him 180/. themselves. 

Note. — The Doctor let the tithes for three years, to 
one Wood, at 60/. per annum, and the said Wood re- 
ceived the tithes of the tenants, paid him his rents, 
and afterwards the Doctor sued his parishioners, and 



APPENDIX. 381 

made many of them, to their utter ruin, pay him the 
said tithes over again, though they had Wood's dis- 
charge for the same. Nevertheless, to be rid of the 
Doctor, the parish then proposed to allow 1601. per 
annum to the surviving vicar. 

The conclusion of this meeting was, that the parish- 
ioners should draw up their proposals in writing, put 
them under their hands, and present them to the Lord 
High Chancellor of England. Accordingly, they were 
drawn up and signed by above three hundred persons, 
and presented to his Lordship, and a copy to his 
Grace of Canterbury ; and one only copy, annexed to 
a petition, was presented to his Majesty in council. 
The purport was as follows: — 

1. That, provided Dr. Cleiver were presently re- 
moved, the parish would allow the succeeding vicar, 
successively, if a sober, learned, orthodox, and peace- 
able man, 160/. per annum, 

2. That Dr. Cleiver should have no advantage of the 
said offer. 

3. That they would consent to an act of Parliament 
or decree in Chancery or Exchequer, to settle and 
confirm the same. 

4. That, till such act or decree could be passed, to 
the intent the said Doctor might not be continued, 
twenty of the most able parishioners would become 
bound to the surviving vicar, to pay him 160/., in lieu 
of all his tithes or other dues, until the said 160/. 
should be confirmed by act of Parliament or decree 
aforesaid. 

5. That whereas the said Doctor pretended great 



382 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

arrears of tithes and dues owing to him, and many ac- 
tions were brought by him against the parishioners for 
the same, every person concerning therein would be 
determined by the judgment of any two indifferent 
persons as the said Lord's Grace of Canterbury and 
the late Lord Chancellor should appoint to hear and 
determine the same, without further charges and trou- 
ble in law. 

This seemed very reasonable and satisfactory to his 
Grace and the Lord Chancellor; and thereupon, Doc- 
tor Cleiver, being sent for by the late Lord Chancel- 
lor, was told thereof, and advised to surrender to his 
Grace of Canterbury ; which if he would do, was of- 
fered another living of 1201. per annum, in Northamp- 
tonshire, then in the Lord Chancellor's gift, and his 
Grace of Canterbury should present one other able, 
orthodox man to Croydon, to be named by the then 
Lord Chancellor, (his Grace of Canterbury being so 
convinced of the badness of Dr. Cleiver, as he resolved 
never to present him to any other) ; this being the me- 
dium most graciously proposed by his Majesty in coun- 
cil, for the ease of his poor subjects. This offer the 
Doctor promised to accept, and to go to the Lord 
Archbishop of Canterbury and resign accordingly; 
but, as he ever hath been false, so in this he manifest- 
ed it, by breaking word both with his Grace and the 
Lord Chancellor; so that they could do nothing. 

And truly, till it was considered what the reason 
might be, it was wondered that he that might have 
had a living of 1201. per annum certain, to part with 
about 60/. or 80/., gotten with contention, should not 



APPENDIX. 383 

accept the same ; but afterwards, it appeared plainly 
that he was so well known in Northamptonshire, that 
the people would have stoned him out of the country, 
if he had come thither. 

Hereupon, the parishioners of Croydon once more 
most humbly petitioned his Majesty in council, and 
annexed their proposals aforesaid, shewing how in- 
evitably they must be ruined if he were continued, and 
prayed his removal. 

Whereupon, the 28th of May, 1 673, it was ordered 
as folio weth : — 

At the Court at Whitehall, the 28th of May, 1673.— 
Present, the King's most excellent Majesty; his Royal 
Highness the Duke of York ; Lord Archbishop of Can- 
terbury; Lord Chancellor; Lord Treasurer; Lord Privy 
Seal; Duke of Lauderdale ; Earl of Ogle; Earl of Bridge- 
water; Earl of Bath; Earl of Carlisle ; Earl of Arling- 
ton; Earl of Craven; Earl of Carbury; Viscount of Hal- 
lifax; LordMaynard; Lord Newport; Lord Holies; Mr. 
Vice Chamberlain ; Mr. Secretary Coventry; Mr. Chan- 
cellor of the Exchequer; Mr. Chancellor of the Duchy; 
Master of the Ordnance; Sir Thomas Osborne; Mr. 
Speaker. 

. Whereas, upon hearing the complaints of the inha- 
bitants of the parish of Croydon, in the county of Sur- 
rey, against Dr. Cleiver, vicar of the place, concerning 
several exorbitant courses by him practised for reco- 
very of his tithes, it was, the 4th of April last, referred 
to his Grace of Canterbury and the Lord High Chan- 
cellor of England, to endeavour to settle the busi- 
ness, for the future quiet of the parishioners, and that 



384 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

there may be a constant maintenance for the vicar 
there. And the said inhabitants, by their humble pe- 
tition this day read at the board, praying his Majesty 
to receive a report from the Lords' referees, of their 
proceedings therein, and to suspend the said Doctor, 
and give the petitioners leave to proceed at law against 
him, or otherwise to relieve them: It was thereupon 
ordered by his Majesty in council, that it be again re- 
ferred to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, and the Right Honourable the Lord High Chan- 
cellor of England ; who, calling all parties before them, 
are to endeavour to compose and settle the said busi- 
ness, according to the proposals made by the said in- 
habitants of Croydon; but, if they cannot effect the 
same, then it is ordered that the said matter in differ- 
ence be heard at this board on Wednesday the 11th 
of June next; at which time all parties concerned are 
to give their attendance. 

Edward Walker. 

Before the time for this hearing came, unluckily it 
fell out, that Dr. Cleiver, having taken a little too 
much of the creature, in London, being upon his jour- 
ney home, just as God would please to have it (to shew 
what he deserved), against the gallows, near Newing- 
ton Butts, his horse threw him, or he fell off from his 
horse, broke his leg in three pieces, and put his shoul- 
der out. There he lay, and none would help him, the 
people thereabouts knowing him so well, that one 
cried, " There lies the vicar of Croydon, with his leg 
broke; I would to God he had broken his neck; the 
church would then be no more scandalized by such a 



APPENDIX. 385 

rogue, nor the poor people tormented. Others wish- 
ed more severe things, which savoured not of Chris- 
tianity; therefore, we will not mention them: but, cer- 
tain it is, no one would help to remove him till they 
were paid beforehand, because he is counted so great 
a knave that none would trust him; nor would a coach- 
man take hiift up to carry him to Dr. Welden's house 
(the parson of Newington), before he had ten shillings 
in hand, which is not half a mile. And when he was 
at Dr. Welden's house, he sent for one Dr. Thorland, 
the bone-setter, from London, who found him in a 
very ill condition, but very glad he saw him at all; for 
it happened about twenty years since, an accident of 
the same nature befel him in Northamptonshire, of 
which the said Dr. Thorland cured him, but to this 
day was never paid for it. Nevertheless, the good 
man, as became a Christian, pitied the Doctor, and, 
seeing his misery, applied himself to his cure, and ef- 
fected the same in about three months, when he de- 
manded for his pains in this and the former case fifty 
pounds; but the Doctor would not pay him, upon 
which he arrested him. Thereupon, he pleaded him- 
self his Majesty's chaplain, shewed a certificate of his 
being sworn in that capacity, and so got off without 
paying for his cure. And as unworthily he served 
Dr. Welden, in whose house he so long lay sick, to the 
great trouble and disorder of his family, prejudice and 
spoiling of his goods. 

By this means the cause could not come to a hear- 
ing, as by the order of the 28th of May, 1673, was 
directed. But, during this the Doctor's sickness, he 
was several times sent unto by his Grace of Canter- 
C c 



386 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

bury and the Lord Chancellor, to know if he would 
resign. He declared that he would, so soon as there 
were indifferent persons nominated to arbitrate the 
differences between him and the parishioners, concern- 
ing arrears of tithes. 

Thereupon, his parishioners presented the petition 
annexed, and had the order of reference under- writ- 
ten made thereupon: — 

To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, 
and the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancel- 
lor of England, the humble Petition of the Inhabit- 
ants of Croydon, 

Humbly Sheweth, 
That your petitioners most thankfully acknowledge 
your Lordships' great favour in giving them hopes of 
the removal of Dr. Cleiver, their vicar, and placing 
amongst them Mr. Hescott, who hath been two Sundays 
with them, and preached, and the whole parish in ge- 
neral satisfied with him, and are ready to make good 
their former proposals, under hands, for making a set- 
tled maintenance of 160/. per annum, to be secured 
and paid in such manner as therein was proposed. 
Sunday, the 22nd of June instant, the church doors 
were shut up, there being no person to preach or read 
prayers ; which was a great discouragement to the pa- 
rish. That Dr. Cleiver, who (as your petitioners are 
informed) had resigned his vicarage (or promised on 
Friday last was seven-night so to have done), doth 
now refuse to make such surrender, until by your 
Lordships two gentlemen be nominated and appointed 
to arbitrate the matter in difference between him and 



APPENDIX. 387 

some of the parishioners, concerning his tithes in ar- 
rears; to which your petitioners readily consent. 

That, by the order of his Majesty in council, upon 
the last petition presented by your petitioners, it was 
referred to your Lordships to end this business, if you 
could, or otherwise the cause upon the said petition 
to have been heard at that board the 11th of June 
last past. That your petitioners have none to preach 
to them, or christen, marry, or bury, Mr. Hescott be- 
ing gone into the country. 

The premises considered, they most humbly implore 
your Lordships' favour to nominate and appoint, un- 
der your hands, two persons to arbitrate the difference 
aforesaid, and desire them to meet and end the same, 
and that Dr. Cleiver may give his final determination 
whether he will surrender or not; and the cause there- 
upon to be set down to be heard in council; and in the 
meantime, that you will be pleased to appoint some 
good man to preach amongst them. 

And, as in duty bound, they shall pray. 

July 24, 1673. 
We do nominate and appoint Sir Adam Brown, 
Baronet, and Sir William Haward, to be the persons 
to arbitrate the matter in difference about tithes in ar- 
rears between Dr. Cleiver and the inhabitants of Croy- 
don, and do desire that they will undertake the trouble 
of ending these differences between them. 

Gilb. Cant. 
Shaftsbury, C. 

Whereupon, Sir Adam Brown and Sir William Ha- 
CC2 



388 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

ward appointed to meet at Croydon, the 5th of Au- 
gust, 1673; where they that day, and on the 6th, 7th, 
and 2Sth of August, and on the 2nd and 9th of Sep- 
tember, met to hear and compose the matters in dif- 
ference between the said vicar and his parishioners. 

And they heard and determined about two hundred 
and fifty differences , and made their report in express 
words as followeth : — 

To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, 
and the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancel- 
lor of England. 

May it please your Lordships, 
In pursuance of your Lordships' reference unto us 
made, upon the petition of the inhabitants of the town 
of Croydon, in the county of Surrey, dated the 24th of 
June last, we have been several days upon the place 
(to wit), on the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 25th of August last, 
and the 2nd and 9th of September instant, to endea- 
vour to compose the matters in difference betwixt Dr. 
William Cleiver and those of his parish with whom 
he had any controversy. On the 5th of August, the 
Doctor, after some delay, came to us to the George 
Inn, where many of the parishioners being present, 
we examined as many of their cases as we could be- 
fore ten of the clock at night, when the Doctor would 
stay no longer, though one hundred of people were 
waiting; so we adjourned to eight o'clock the next 
morning, when the Doctor refused to come to us, al- 
leging indisposition of body. Whereupon, resolving 
to proceed as far as we could, we went to his house, 
and continued sitting from eight in the morning till 



APPENDIX. 389 

half an hour past twelve at night, without any inter- 
mission to eat; in which time we were sometimes told 
by the Doctor, that we needed not to trouble ourselves 
any farther, for, that he and those that were in ar- 
rears to him (and which we had not before determin- 
ed) should agree. But, upon the importunity of the 
poor, we stayed and heard all persons that the Doctor 
then complained against, and determined every case 
then before us; so that we thought to have made our 
report. But afterwards, accidentally riding through 
the town, and hearing fresh complaints, upon the de- 
sire of many of the inhabitants, we appointed to meet 
again on the 25th. of August last; when accordingly we 
came to the town, and sent for the Doctor, who refus- 
ed to come to us. Whereupon, we again went down 
to his house, but were so delayed by him, that we 
could not in the forenoon dispatch above eight or nine 
persons, he refusing to let those be called that were 
present, and ready to pay money, and calling upon 
others that were not there, and who only owed him for 
christenings and offerings. And, having sat till one of 
the clock, we went to the George to dinner, desiring 
the Doctor's company with us, offered him the conve- 
nience of a coach, because of his lameness, and left the 
same to bring him ; went ourselves on foot, the which 
we rather did, because his own house was inconve- 
nient, and we were much incommoded there by the 
smallness of the room and the heat occasioned by the 
crowd of people; but the Doctor would not come to 
us. So that, after sending for him several times, and 
he refusing to come, we writ to him, and appointed 
him to come to us on the 2nd of September instant ; 



390 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

expressly desiring him to prepare us a list of the per- 
sons' names that owed him any money, and how much 
each owed him, and for what; that so we might lose 
no more time in searching his books and papers for all 
the men that came before us, which much injured our 
proceedings; which done, we dismissed those that at- 
tended, who lost that daye's work, and appointed 
them to attend on the 2nd of September. But, on the 
1 st of September, the said Doctor prevailed (upon pre- 
tence that he was ill by preaching the Sunday before), 
to defer the meeting till the 9th of September, when 
he promised to come to the George to us; and that, in 
the mean time, the parishioners should have notice 
thereof. Nevertheless, we, loth to disappoint them, 
came to Croydon the 2nd of September, and found 
many of the inhabitants waiting, having had no timely 
notice; and therefore sent to the Doctor, desiring him 
to come to us and dispatch them, (being informed he 
was well, and went abroad that day); but, though we 
sent often down, he refused to come; and so we were 
forced to dismiss them, with the loss of that day also, 
which much troubled us, appointing them to appear 
again the 9th of September; when we again attended, 
and sent for the Doctor, who at first refused to come, 
pretending that he had not promised so to do ; where- 
by he spent great part of our time, insomuch that we 
could do nothing till after dinner, when we sat, and 
the inhabitants being present, we demanded the list 
aforesaid, but could not prevail for the same; so that 
most part of our time (as formerly) was spent in his 
turning over his books. Nevertheless, we sat till ten 
at night, and dispatched all that were present, unless 



APPENDIX. 391 

some few which the Doctor would not stay to end, 
though he continued longer in the room than we be- 
lieve would have dispatched them ; nor would he agree, 
though we desired it, to appear the next morning to 
end the same ; so that they lost their labour. And we 
do humbly certify, that, having examined about two 
hundred and fifty several cases, we did find, that the 
occasion of the difference between the Doctor and them 
was the unreasonable demands for tithes, and other 
undue impositions he had endeavoured to impose upon 
most of them, being the poorest sort of inhabitants ; 
who, being illiterate, were, by undue means, drawn 
into exorbitant agreements, penal bills, or judgments, 
by arresting and keeping them in durance, till they 
complied with him therein; whereby many families 
were put to very great expense, and thereby much im- 
poverished some of them, totally ruined others, forced 
them to run from their houses, and leave their wives 
and children to the parish; by which means we conceive 
that he himself, in some measure, hath been the occa- 
sion of the non-payment of what was his just dues, 
which otherwise might probably have been had, with 
the affections of the people. And for ground of this 
our belief, we take leave further to inform your Lord- 
ships, that every person that appeared before us, and 
with whom the Doctor had any contest, most willingly 
submitted to whatever we should determine between 
them; whereupon we proceeded to examine his de- 
mands, and, upon deliberate consideration of what was 
alleged on each side, found them very extravagant, 
and so fitting to be submitted unto; therefore moder- 
ated the same, giving him, in some cases, but the 



392 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

twentieth, in others the twelfth, tenth, sixth, or fourth 
part of what he demanded; which, in many cases, was 
more than they ought to have paid. Nevertheless, 
they most readily submitted thereunto, and all of them 
paid the same, in hopes of the Doctor's being removed, 
so that they may not further be troubled with him; the 
which he seemed to insinuate his readiness unto, and 
was the great motive that in many cases invited us to 
do what we did, excepting some poor alms-men, from 
whom he had gotten judgments for several sums of 
money, who being to pay a part thereof, where- 
upon, finding little or no ground for the said judg- 
ments, we reduced the sums demanded to a third part, 
and the parish undertook to satisfy the same, with 
which the Doctor rested satisfied; and also two or 
three small sums, not exceeding five pounds in the 
whole, for payment whereof we have given some short 
time. And we did determine all the cases that came 
before us, except one of Christopher Joyner, deceas- 
ed, of whose executors he demanded 10/. per annum, 
for ten years' arrears of tithes, when as he had not 
above 201, per annum in the parish; and Sir Purbeck 
Temple and Thomas Bower's cases, the difference be- 
tween whom had been before submitted to reference, 
and awards made, therein. Nevertheless, they sub- 
mitted to our determination ; and Sir Purbeck Temple 
tendered the money according to his award, which 
would not be accepted; and excepting also the case of 
Edward Harvy, the which had also been submitted 
unto reference, and one award made therein (though 
he be not able to pay any part of the money) ; which 
cases we were forced to leave, as we found the Doctor 



APPENDIX. 393 

refusing to refer himself to us therein. And, having 
thus proceeded (being weary with these delays), we 
left the said parishioners, who most humbly and una- 
nimously implore your good Lordships' favour to re- 
move from amongst them the said Doctor, and that a 
good man may be placed amongst them. In which suit 
we also humbly join to your honours, as a thing which, 
for the reasons aforesaid, we do judge very conve- 
nient; all which, nevertheless, we humbly submit to 
your Lordships' judgments, and remain, 

My Lords, 
Your Lordships' most humble servants, 

Adam Brown. 
William Haward. 

Croydon, September 10, 1673. 

This report is not the tenth part so bad as the mat- 
ter appeared against the Doctor; the particular cases 
decided are too long to insert; but if they were, it 
would not be possible for any man to believe there 
could be so many horrid oppressions and frauds put 
upon poor people by any clergyman living. Of this 
report there were two copies signed; the one of them 
the referees presented to my Lord's Grace of Canter- 
bury, the other to the late Lord Chancellor; who 
thereupon promised to do what in them lay to remove 
the said Doctor. Accordingly he was sent for, pro- 
mised his Grace that he would resign, and came to 
the Lord Chancellor, and told him the same also ; and 
that, whenever his Lordship should desire the same, 
he would do it; adding, that his Grace commanded 



394 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

him to tell his Lordship that he would present to Croy- 
don such a person as his Lordship would appoint. 
And upon this consideration, the Lord Chancellor pro- 
mised the said Cleiver to provide for him some other 
living, bidding him rely upon his honour for it, assur- 
ing him he should have the first convenient living that 
fell in his gift, or to that effect ; whereupon the said 
Doctor promised to conform to his Lordship's desire?, 
but neglected to do the same, shuffling and endeavour- 
ing to put tricks upon their Lordships. This necessi- 
tated the parishioners to petition his Majesty and 
council once more ; therein setting forth what the re- 
ferees had done, annexing their report to the said pe- 
tition, shewing the necessity of the Doctor's being re- 
moved, or the town's being ruined; therefore humbly 
implored his removal, or that they might have his Ma- 
jesty's royal leave for to insert a clause into the act of 
Parliament then drawing, to settle the 160/. per annum 
on the vicar; to make the said Doctor incapable of any 
preferment in church or state. 

This petition being read, the King's most excellent 
Majesty present, the parishioners were called in, and 
told by the Lord Chancellor that their petition had 
been read, and that his Majesty's royal pleasure was, 
that in case the said Doctor did not surrender before 
the bills designed to be brought into Parliament for 
settling the maintenance aforesaid should be presented 
to the Parliament, that then they should put in such a 
clause into the said bill, wishing the parish to hasten 
the said bill. This the Lord Chancellor declared to 
them in his Majesty's presence. Besides this, the or- 
der following was made : — 



APPENDIX. 395 

At the Court at Whitehall, October 15, 1673.— Pre- 
sent, the King's most excellent Majesty in council. 

Upon reading the petition of the inhabitants of 
Croydon, complaining against Dr. William Cleiver, 
their vicar, and praying that he may be removed, for 
several reasons set forth in the petition; his Majesty 
in council hath this day declared, that when the inha- 
bitants of the said parish of Croydon shall provide to 
settle 1601. sl year as a maintenance for the vicar of the 
said parish, according to their proposal in the said pe- 
tition, in order to the passing of an act to confirm the 
same for ever on the vicarage of the said parish, then 
his Majesty will give effectual order for removing the 
present incumbent, Dr. Cleiver. 

Robert Southwell. 

Upon this, the parishioners immediately went home, 
and published in the market, and at the church, his 
Majesty's gracious answer; desiring all the inhabitants 
to meet at the vestry to sign a declaration testifying 
their consents to the passing of the bill aforesaid; and 
accordingly most of them did meet, signed and sealed 
such certificates of their consents, and their humble pe- 
tition to both houses of Parliament to pass the said 
bill, and empowering a solicitor to prosecute the pass- 
ing thereof. 

This done, a bill was drawn, and such a clause as 
aforesaid was contained therein; when drawn, the 
same was copied, and one copy carried and left with 
his Grace of Canterbury; the other with the then 
Lord Chancellor: They having perused the same, my 
Lord of Canterbury referred the amendment there- 
of to Mr. Phillips of the Inner Temple, his Grace's 



396 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 

counsel, and the Lord Chancellor to Mr. Attorney 
Montague; both were attended, and they made their 
several amendments: with which the same was fairly 
copied, and put into Sir Adam Brown's hand, to pre- 
sent in October last; but the prorogation of Parliament 
prevented the same. 

All this time the said Doctor had notice of it ; knew 
of the clause ; promised to surrender, so it might be 
left out; went to both his Grace of Canterbury, and 
from him to the Lord Chancellor, frequently declaring 
the same. And my Lord Chancellor offered him ano- 
ther living, which he kept void for him ; and so in truth 
it was, till the very day his Majesty was pleased to 
send for the seal from his Lordship. But the Doctor, 
resolving to persist in his villainies to ruin the parish 
of Croydon, (as he frequently declares he will do be- 
fore he leaves it), refuses to surrender, but continues 
to go on in horrid oppressions and vexations, com- 
mencing suits against his parishioners, without colour 
of cause, to their unspeakable damage. 

Under these sad oppressions, the poor parish having 
lain these thirteen years languishing, they now become 
humble supplicants to the Parliament of England, to 
enable them by an act to give such maintenance to a 
succeeding minister as may he an encouragement to a 
sober, learned, orthodox, and peaceable man to come 
and settle amongst them; to do the church that right 
as to remove so wicked and scandalous a person out of 
it ; and, for the honour and vindication of the religion 
of the Church of England, to make him for ever inca- 
pable of serving in the church again; than which no 
greater advantage can be done to the Church of Eng- 
land at this time. 



APPENDIX. 397 

For the said Doctor is a frequenter of houses of de- 
bauchery v particularly a blind, beggarly, disorderly 
ale-house, in a by-place within the parish of Ne wing- 
ton, notoriously infamous for entertainment of lewd 
persons, where the officers (having notice given them) 
about midnight found him (upon search) hid in a gar- 
ret, and were carrying him to the counter or pri- 
son in the Borough, till he discovered himself to be a 
clergyman, and besought their civility, entreating that 
they would not disgrace him publicly; whereupon 
they released him. But the house soon after was in 
danger to be pulled down for a baudy-house. 

It is humbly submitted, whether this man be fit to be 
continued in the Church, or to be made a public ex- 
ample, to deter other clergymen from such wicked 
practices for the future. 



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